Atom Release Notes

Version 17, Aug. 4, 2021

Default image bounds increased.
Several efficiency improvements.
Minor code cleanup.
Fix for a bug: the icon for returning from the slide page to the index page wasn't picking up the correct tooltip.

Version 16, Jul. 22, 2021

Simplified image download option.
All icons replaced with newly-created, cleaner SVG's. At typical display sizes, most do not appear different, but the files are smaller, and they scale better.
Some default settings changes.

Version 15, Jul. 14, 2021

Revised custom cursors for previous/next hover on slide images, for both fat and thin icon styles.
UI compiled to Java 8, for the sake of users stuck with the 32-bit version of Windows 7.

Version 14, Jul. 8, 2021

Revised user interface.
Improved thin icons.
CSS improvements.
Some changes for cross-skin variable naming consistency.

Version 13, Jul. 2, 2021

Support for PDF's added.
Option to specify a background color for a thumbnail icon, e.g., a folder or a PDF that does not have a representing image.
Structural changes for better handling of borders.
Skin-specific folder icon, based on the default provided by jAlbum, but in shades of gray rather than blue.
Cleaner keyboard navigation scripting.

Version 12, Jun. 11, 2021

Option to use thin icons, in place of the default set.
On-image navigation cursors changed from standard pointers to left/right pointers, with tooltips.
Minor code cleanup.

Version 11, May 13, 2021

Faster routines for excluding unsupported objects and forcing the use of original GIF's.
Some default settings changes.

Version 10, Apr. 18, 2021

Chained directories enabled. The jAlbum core has been modified to confine the chaining to sibling directories, so the navigation is no longer hopelessly confusing.
Updated jQuery.
Removed some old debugging code.

Version 9, Mar. 24, 2021

A CSS change to prevent careless visitor mousing from selecting images and icons and turning them blue.
An adjustment to the slide page image resizing lower limit.
Some refinement of the navigation icons.

Version 8, Mar. 6, 2021

Option to open web locations in new tabs, rather than the same tab.
A fix for a bug in the scroll position memory function.

Version 7, Mar. 1, 2021

An index page now retains its scroll position when returning from a folder or from a slide page.
A minor tweak to the slide page responsiveness script.
Minor code cleanup.

Version 6, Feb. 11, 2021

Support for web locations added.

Version 5, Jan. 20, 2021

A small improvement to the index page layout.
Minor code cleanup.

Version 4, Dec. 11, 2020

On a video slide page, the video now resets when it's finished, displaying the poster image again rather than the last frame of the video (which is often a black screen).
The YouTube embed code now includes an attribute to prevent the display of related videos at the end of play, except for videos from the same YouTube channel.

Version 3, Nov. 5, 2020

Option to enter top and bottom info text (text that appears above or below the thumbnails).
Google Analytics code insertion moved to top of <head> section, per current Google guidance.
Version number control added (inadvertently omitted in versions 1 and 2).
Automatic cleanup of unneeded files in the hidden project/.jalbum directory.

Version 2, Oct. 19, 2020

Improved slide transitions.
Option to include YouTube and Vimeo videos in the project.
Option to display underscores as spaces when using folder or file names as titles, browser tabs, captions, or tooltips.
Updated help links from settings panels.

Version 1, Oct. 3, 2020

Initial release.
This skin is intended as a replacement for the Minimal skin. It produces a similarly minimalist album design, but retains almost none of the code from Minimal.
The user options, album behavior, and underlying coding differ from Minimal in a number of ways:
- Better control over maximum page width.
- On a phone, thumbnail borders and padding are eliminated, and spacing between thumbnails is reduced.
- Fully responsive slide page.
- Smoother image transitions.
- Better control over titling, captioning, and tooltip options.
- Ability to customize the colors, beyond the Dark and Light preset styles.
- More flexible image download options.
- Easier selection of tooltip text for navigation icons.
- Ability to include a copyright notice, a meta description, a robots tag, a link to a favicon, and Google Analytics.
- Ability to apply custom CSS, with syntax highlighting in the user interface.
- Better text string cleanups.
- Customizable credits link.
- Larger default image bounds for thumbnails and slide images.
- Unsupported objects are automatically excluded from the project.
- GIF's are not converted to PNG's, so animation is preserved.
- Unified stylesheet, which reduces uploading and server calls.
- SVG icons, to allow color selection.
- Simplified icon set.
- A relative URL may be used for the home page link.
- Slide image preloading, for better page transitions.
- No thumbstrip option.
- No support for widgets or chained directories.
- Compiled user interface. More robust and loads 6x faster.
- Requires jAlbum 22 and Java 14 (Minimal is backward-compatible to jAlbum 14 and Java 8).
This is a skin to use for making albums. It is not intended as a teaching tool. However, all the source code is bundled with the skin.