Today I’ve been working on a compact slideshow component for jQuery – I can’t wait to get back to working on our CoverFlow component, but here’s a little extra you might find useful. I figured that as many of my fellow developers have sites with a fairly standard size sidebar, why not create something that could offer simple image viewing capabilities in that limited realestate? This is where Minibox comes in.

The plugin (which you can see above with a polaroid skin) is fairly simple and allows you to flip back and forth between the images in a UL list and  also displays captions for each item to your users.

One of the main aims of this mini-project was to create a small-sized add-on that doesn’t sacrifice on functionality – for example the component also includes a nice fade-in effect for transitions (using a minified version of the easing plugin).  The total size of the plugin is 3.5kb with another 3.8kb needed for easing effects. Thats it.

You can download the sources now over at Google Code.

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