how come i can find hundreds of exmaples of jquery slideshow navigation and zero w/ prototype/scriptaculous?

Question

magento comes bundled with scriptaculous so i figured i'd use those for a simple slideshow with navigation to jump between slides. -what a mistake, i can't find anything other than pause/play controls. Why?

EDIT: To clarify what i mean by "jump between slides" is - i'm looking for buttons like 1 2 3 4 NOT pause, prev, next. Thanks!

Answer 1

Because there aren't that many people developing with scriptaculous.

The real question is why is Magento bundled (and from what I can tell, pretty tightly coupled) with a lackluster javascript library.

Answer 2

There may not be hundreds but there's certainly more than zero. Here's 3 I found just on the first page of a google search:

• http://www.davidmassiani.com/horinaja/
• http://www.devduff.com/wordpress/scriptaculous-slideshow-for-blogs-and-websites.php
• http://www.tomdoyletalk.com/2008/10/28/simple-image-gallery-slideshow-with-scriptaculous-and-prototype/

Answer 3

If that's "Why aren't there many slide shows", its because Prototype/Scriptaculous was most widely by the Rails community, so most of the interesting Prototype/Scriptaculous add-ons are confined to Rails applications.

If that's "Why does Magento use Prototype/Scriptaculous", its because the Magento developers saw it as the best way to accomplish their goals.