Cooler than a cool thing on a cold day

Introducing the PZ3IceCold plugin

We haven't really named it that, it just kinda fit with the flow of the rest of the post ... just like all the images do ... So, you want it, you desire it, you love the feel of it in your hands, you want to do all sorts of cool and sexy things with it ...... you need a shrink ...... but where the hell do you get it? The short answer is here, the long answer is way longer and also involves big words .... but you've already downloaded the plugin and forgotten all about my tacky lil pad, whilst you paw over the coolness of the interface .... I understand .... sniff .....

for the minority that are still reading, here's the rest of the post ( including all the big words ):

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We rock

Millions of people email us on a daily basis begging us to code a photozoom plugin that works with every version of b₂evolution that we've tested it with ........ which is .... urm, whatever version I'm running, and another one, and scott may have tested it by the time I post this, in whatever version he's running, so that's three versions it may or may not run in ...... Today their dreams have become a reality ..... so stop emailing us already, just download the bloody plugin ...... from now on, adding a photozoomed image to your posts is as simple as clicking a button, emailing us to tell us how frickin' cool the interface looks, clicking a few more buttons here, type the odd caption there and ... just for you IE users out there ..... clicking on a radio button, and voila, or boom or blammo or whatever, instant PZ3 image in your post complete with caption, alt text, title text and some other bits of your choice ....... how cool is that!

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So, how come we're cooler than a canadian snowstorm?

The short answer is "install the plugin".The long answer is much longer and includes those big words I promised : On the grounds that the b2evo admin pretty much requires javascript just to function, we decided to have a play with improving the work-flow by manipulating the DOM with some pretty persuasive code .... which is ironic really, since photozoom was specifically created to be a pure CSS solution .... without all the ie specific html shit that other solutions employ ... anyway, I digress .... so, we started to play with an interface .... ohhh, and we bent the core a tad, sorry FG .... and then we spent a fair smidge of time, courtesy of Mr Gates, with a slightly higher than normal blood preassure ... and then, finally, we stepped back and looked in awe at the wondrous mess we'd created ....... at least it proved the concept was viable

Real html added to your post

So, we wandered off into a dark and lonely place and spent a few days coding up the new work-flow ... and then we spent several hours beating IE over the head with a copy of HTML for Dummies ... and finally it was done. The end result is a plugin that makes it a doddle to add photozoom images to your post, without you having to worry about all the HTML/CSS required to make all the magic work. As an added bonus the plugin actually puts the HTML into your post so even if you uninstall the plugin, as long as you include the pz3 css in your skin, your images will still work.

Is that it?

Realising that not everybody likes the black look, weirdos, we added loads of classnames and id's and stuff to all the various bits that make up the interface, so if you prefer your screen to be red just hit the relevant stylesheet and play with hex. Just don't forget to take IE to one side and slap it around until it understands your changes. Please note : this is a pre-release version, so there's still a few style glitches to work out with the interface. The actual photozoom part of it is fully finished though and won't be changed between now and the public release, so it's safe to play with it.

As always any feedback would be appreciated, even if all you want to say is "your interface sucks", of course we'd just refer you to a good shrink, but that's by the by.

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