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This release brings some bugfixes and new features as listed below:

Bugfixes:

1) On some MS Windows webserver environment the gallery path was not being handled with /, and that could cause an invalid checksum on gallery load via AJAX, now the path is fixed

2) RapidGallery now implements the Cross-Origin Resource Sharing method (CORS) http://www.w3.org/TR/access-control/ to try circumvent those cases in which the AJAX same origin policy doesn't let the gallery load (i.e. website base url with https and AJAX request to http base url or viceversa, and also website base url with www prefix and AJAX request to http base url without www prefix or viceversa). In such cases RapidGallery was returning "Sorry but there was an error:0" which basically was meaning that you were trying to violate AJAX same origin policy. Now with CORS Implementation the issue should be fixed.

Hot New features: 

1) First and foremost the "Use original slides" option; finally the high quality photos lovers who can manually provide their own top-quality resized slides can simply activate this option in such a way RapidGallery will simply use the original images provided as slides without performing any image work (files will be untouched) to preserve both quality and original dimensions, on the other hand when this option is active you won't be able to use the Watermark functionality for the slides (right because with such option we don't want to touch the slides).

2) The "Show only" option. With this option it is possible to enter a number X to make RapidGallery shows only the first X thumbnails. The same option can also be used in a different way; if you enter a path/URI to a single custom image then RapidGallery will show only your custom image instead of the thumbnails and clicking on such custom image will open the gallery.

Show only single thumb image

Show only 2 thumb images

3) The "Pre-cache slides" option. In older versions by default RapidGallery was gradually preloading slides in cache to speed up slide loading when you were clicking on any thumbnail. While this behaviour can be great for small/average galleries, it can be high bandwidth consuming for very large galleries (preloading a lot of slides in advance). With this new option, you now have the possibility to turn on/off this behaviour depending on your needs.

4) New callback event function "onRapidGalleryGetThumbs". Without hacking RapidGallery code you can simply define such JavaScript function to have an api hook inside of RapidGallery triggered whenever a gallery is about to render its thumbnails. In this way you can easily customize finally rendered view via Javascript 

This release has been our most significant release to date. We’ve decided to jump from version 1.1.3 directly to 1.2.0 by including in this major update several fixes, optimizations and also some brand new features that were requested in our Feature Requests forum section.

What's new in RapidGallery 1.2.0?

New features added:

• The most important change is the introduction of thumbnail captions. A lot of people already appreciated the possibility of adding multilanguage captions for slides but due to popular demand from our customers, we have included thumbnail captions. Now it’s possible to create captions for thumbnails, which can be managed using the Index Manager or alternatively, directly by editing the index.rapid file. Thumbnail captions won’t break your gallery layout even if your captions have different length/height and you will be able to style them in your template through a well-known CSS class.
  Thumbnail captions are retro-compatible with old captions format so that if you already own a RapidGallery with slide captions, Index Manager will preserve them and allow you to add the new thumb-captions. Of course thumbnail-captions are multilanguage too, you can create different thumb-captions for different language-locales and you can also easily sort them as usual by using our Index Manager.
• A new photogallery theme/skin has been included in this major version, it is Lightbox 2 by Lokesh Dhakar. We now have proudly reached a total of 12 different themes for RapidGallery. Check out our demo (click on the thumbs at the bottom of the page)
• Our Dutch customers from Holland will appreciate the new Dutch language translation of RapidGallery. The RapidGallery Module/Plugin backend have been translated in Dutch Now we have a total of 7 languages in which RapidGallery is natively available for our customers.

New Fixes:

• This version fixes compatibility issues in Joomla backend with the JComments extension. Now you can use JComments and RapidGallery together without any problems.
• Several CSS style fixes have been applied in order to avoid the most frequent CSS overrides that we have experienced with some customers’ templates. Now RapidGallery should be able to preserve its layout styles even in conditions where the template is defining too much generic and global style rules.
• Being a conflictless extension has always been one of RapidGallery key factors, loading just once, only what is needed and only if it’s not already there. RapidGallery 1.2.0 provides significant optimizations for such task by avoiding some weird double file inclusions that could be rarely experienced with Joomla caching active.
• Our Requirements Checklist in Module/Plugin backend have now been improved to detect even unexpected server-side errors that could be caused by strange webserver misconfigurations.

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