Just ahead of the full 3.5 release of the next iteration of our WebRotate 360 Product Viewer, we would like to make available a limited 3.5 release to help addressing some of the pressing issues in our previous viewer releases, and specifically:

• Firefox 17.x-18.x image flashing issue caused by this Firefox bug.
• Popup hot-spots closing immediately after opening on some Android devices.
• Support for multiple 360 product spins on the same web page (existing PRO users only).
• Rotation inertia support (can be disabled in xml config if needed via the useInertia setting; please see included sample).
• Integration as a jQuery module (see included html for a sample).

If you urgently need any of these, please don't hesitate to download and test this limited 3.5 beta release.

To apply to your existing installations, just overwrite the contents of your imagerotator folder with the one included in this download. No changes to your existing xml should be necessary.

IMPORTANT: this new version doesn't support Adobe Flash, so if you are still using Flash mode via our previous 360 viewer releases, this drop will not work for you.

March 07, 2014 - You can now download full Beta release for Windows and Mac OS X on our main download page under DOWNLOAD LATEST BETA 3.5

PS: here's a little bit more information (and a quick demo) about the upcoming 3.5 release: First Preview of Beta 3.5

This is just a quick preview of several major features and fixes coming in the new WebRotate 360 Product Viewer 3.5 release (use the link below to open the demo in your browser):

• Full-screen option in JavaScript mode. As you probably know, we're discontinuing Flash support going forward with the 3.5 release and the only feature we were lacking in pure JS mode was the full-screen capability. Well, thanks to the recent enhancements in major browsers this became possible to implement in Firefox, Chrome, Safari and also to some extent in IE and Opera (the last two will show a full-browser view vs full-screen that we usually expect from Adobe Flash). This demo below uses a separate high-res image set for the full-screen viewing (the same images used for the deep zoom), but you can also use your main set of images for the full-screen which will remove the initial loading while in the full-screen mode and you can even pass a different configuration as a viewer parameter so that your full-screen can use completely different images and viewer settings (this is not shown in this preview).
• Multiple viewers on the same page. Many of you have asked about it and now it's done!
• jQuery plugin support. It's now possible to use our 360 viewer as a generic jQuery plugin. Sweet...
• Inertia or gradual slowdown of a 360 degree spin. There's also a couple of settings in SpotEditor that will allow you to adjust how fast and responsive the inertia should be.
• This release addresses the issue with Firefox white image flashing during rotation which was caused by this Firefox bug and was most prominent in the latest FF 17 releases. Our workaround for Firefox browsers fixes the flashing. Hopefully when the Firefox bug is fixed by Mozilla team, we could disable this workaround for good.
• The hot-spot issue on Android stock browser and Android Chrome where hot-spots wouldn't stay up under certain conditions is also fixed in this preview.

PS: there're few other major enhancements in 3.5 that we are not ready to preview yet (extensive API support is one of them for example).

March 07, 2014 - You can now download full Beta release for Windows and Mac OS X on our main download page under DOWNLOAD LATEST BETA 3.5

Just would like to thank all of our users, clients and friends for your continued support, feedback and engagement during this banner year.

You are awesome. With your help, we were able to achieve a lot in 2012 and we look forward to going even further in 2013 with our upcoming 360 degree software releases, cool new services and innovative 360 photography products that we are planing to add to our spanking new online store at PhotoGear360.com

Once again, thank you everyone and we wish you a happy, healthy New Year!

Your WebRotate 360 team.