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Alphabeat / Leon Jean Marie

Originally uploaded by battez

saw this great band AlphaBeat last night - kind of S Club 7 with early Madonna and recent Madonna thrown in. Lots n lots of catchy tunes…

A really nice script for a basic cross fading slideshow in javascript was written by Andrew Sellick a wee while ago.

Along with others using the script I was suffereing from a behaviour in browsers where the images in the list items would be cycled through as stills briefly until the slideshow was ready to go (After they had all loaded). To fix this you

I think I have managed a suitable fix for the flash of the images that this script displays sometimes :

like another poster said - add the INLINE style to the LI elements, within your HTML

so LI style= “visiblity: hidden”

THEN in the script itself, add this in the init() for loop: (before the if(i!=0) bit:

lis[i].style.visibility = ‘visible’;

esentially when it inits the LI list items it sets them back to visible. Visibility is the key since until visible, the elements act as a placeholder.

can do the following, which looks much more slick:

…but only english schools it seems. Still, an interesting scheme to provide chess sets for free to all schools who apply. They look slightly ugly but are intriguingly meant to be near indestructible sets made from some form of durable plastic.

Hi we are having a tournament for he next 4 weeks at our Chess Club - “Phones” in Glasgow’s Polish club at the Park.

I have set up a website for the tournament using a free wiki