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metafizzy / flickity

:leaves: Touch, responsive, flickable carousels
https://flickity.metafizzy.co
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Carousel landscape #794

Closed spacecat closed 6 years ago

spacecat commented 6 years ago

@desandro

What does the carousel landscape look like these days?

Flickity still at the top of the list or has recent technology made flickity obsolete? (Btw, I like flickity a lot)

Would love to hear your observations and thoughts!

desandro commented 6 years ago

IMO Flickity is the best and remains the best.

Here's my quick test for carousel quality: Swipe forward to a slide, then immediately swipe back to the original slide, while the original swipe is still animating. With Flickity, this interaction is seamless. With nearly every other carousel, this interaction is either herky-jerky or not supported.

Here's another test: read the documentation. Flickity has a copy-pastable code and a demo for every variation of every option and piece API.

Flickity is the best because it was developed by someone with years of experience building and supporting widely popular web plugins. Flickity is built upon those years. Other developers have other specialties, perhaps in framework integration or leveraging cutting edge ECMAScript features. But with Flickity, you get someone with a broad range of skills that are ideal for carousel plugin: animation, accessibility, interoperability, and documentation.

If there's a better carousel I'd love to see it.

spacecat commented 6 years ago

Thanks @desandro for your thoughts/input; this gives me the confidence to continue using your amazing plugin on my website. :)