Anyone know what this component is commonly called? Or what you would call it?
Note... we already have a Selector, Swiper, Stepper, Carousel, etc. so hopefully something different. I have an idea for a name.... but just want to make sure there is not an obvious one that I am missing.
Carousel is generally what that would be called, right? On macs I think Apple has its own name "Cover Flow"? MerryGoRound? ShieldMaiden? Tortoise? Armadillo? CardSlider?
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CardTrain
CardConveyor
Caterpillar
Conveyor
ContainerBelt
ContainerTrack
ContinousTrack
Track
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I found out CoverFlow and albumShuffle
//I’m still waiting for them to bring back the album shuffle, where you’d pick an artist, //and play an entire album before randomly selecting the next album to be played.
here https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/13tc6c3/anyone_else_wish_this_was_still_a_thing_scrolling/
and at https://vanderlee.github.io/coverflow/
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@Abstract isn't this essentially a type of slider? I know this isn't helpful. I do like the one word naming scheme of the others. Conveyor is nice. Or Track. In truth it is just another carousel designed a bit differently.
It is more like a real carousel than our other carousel. But... some of you may remember a RoloDex - it is kind of like that too. Or the same feel. Not going to call it a RoloDex as it is probably a trademark.
I was also thinking like cards deck as name.. I hope you can be able to shuffle the cards .. as there is an asset https://zimjs.com/assets/cards.png
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We currently have a Marquee() at https://zimjs.com/marquee.html
This comes with a built-in indicator, pause and play and a little Z brand. It is primarily for interactive ads although works with images too.
We also have the Carousel() that was made by @marvafink and integrated into ZIM. It has been very handy and used a lot on our site:
Now we are launching another which is pseudo 3D and that is what we are figuring out what to name:
This is much more like a carousel. We were going to call it ZIM Dex() sort of short for Rolodex. But... not everyone knows a rolodex as they were around in the 60s and 70s... and it might be a trademark. Still Dex would work, but is not quite as descriptive and plain as most of our other component names.
What we are thinking now, is possibly removing the current Marquee, renaming the existing Carousel to Marquee and then calling the new pseudo-3D one a Carousel. If anyone really needed the old Carousel, they can grab the old code and rename it. It was a combination of components - a little lengthy in code (300 lines) for how many people use it, and a bit hard-coded in look with an unusual side indicator. So pretty custom.
Merging the existing Marquee and the pseudo-3D one into one class is not really an option - they have very different parameters.
Any thoughts?
marquee is a name from what?
maybe a flip() or swipe() or swiper() but both already exist https://zimjs.org/spells.html?item=Swiper ?
is saw this flip idea also at flipcounter
https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/nl/flipCounter/index.html
A Marquee is the sign above an event space that says what is playing at a play or movie, etc. It is also a name for a banner ad space on a site that rotates banners. Marva had made us a simple version and called it a Carousel which is probably a more popular name but it was really the same thing that we already had (she did not know or wanted a more simple version). So we just left both.
That's a neat counter - something to consider for the future.
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Hmmm... there would be a problem with ZIM Distil if we replace a name of an existing class with new code. As in nobody could distill an older Marquee... but then they would just have to add the code themselves to their project. It would be a rare case... okay, probably good to do the swap unless anyone has a concern.
Ah... forgot, the current Carousel also handles showing multiple objects at once and cycling through them, so then it seems more like a carousel.
Okay - just did a search for web carousel component and here is what I got - not one is the 3D...
If I add the word 3D Carousel then I get
Maybe we should just keep Marquee and Carousel as they are and add a 3DCarousel() class.
Or ZIM Carousel3D()
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good idea Carousel3D