I like the concept and was going to star it until I read one of the dependencies is Backbone. Otherwise, there are many other libraries that only require one dependency.<p><a href="https://github.com/EragonJ/Trip.js" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/EragonJ/Trip.js</a>
<a href="https://github.com/usablica/intro.js" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/usablica/intro.js</a>
<a href="https://github.com/sorich87/bootstrap-tour" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/sorich87/bootstrap-tour</a><p>Definitely dig the look and feel of this though.
We use Backbone as our frontend framework at my startup. A few months ago we evaluated guided-tour libraries such as Joyride, Bootstrap Tour and others. We liked Joyride at the time because it was declarative with some simple global setup and teardown callbacks, but it quickly became apparent it wasn't sophisticated enough for a rich web app where, in Backbone's paradigm, you're waiting for sync events and other events before continuing through the guided tour. We ended up having to fork and modify Joyride to support the behavior we wanted. This lib looks like a promising generalized version of what we had to fork Joyride to do!
I looked at this component when we wanted to make a "getting started" tour for Aha! (<a href="http://www.aha.io" rel="nofollow">http://www.aha.io</a>). However, I didn't like the idea of a linear tour where you must complete one step to get to the next. Instead I created <a href="https://github.com/aha-app/getting_started_balloons" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/aha-app/getting_started_balloons</a> (for Rails 3 and JQuery) which allows multiple balloons to be shown at once.<p>The slightly novel aspect is the use of SVG to draw the arrow to the element you want to highlight. This allows flexibility in positioning the balloon so that it doesn't obscure some other interesting aspect of the screen.
Easel.io is a really beautiful looking product. I just played around with the demo tour and it worked pretty well though a little quirky. Are you using Tourist.js to implement the demo tour?
whats the browser compatibility like? not so much the looks but function wise. I'd love to use this on my upcoming project, but I need IE7 compatibility. Cheers great work.