It works really well after changing the slide function as suggested in one of the comments. However, I noticed one problem. As the carousel goes to the second or subsequent images, the carousel collapses (to zero height) while the image is being downloaded and then expands back again. This creates a very bad and jarring effect. I found a solution to this here: https://coderwall.com/p/uf2pka/normalize-twitter-bootstrap-carousel-slide-heights
It works really well after changing the slide function as suggested in one of the comments. However, I noticed one problem. As the carousel goes to the second or subsequent images, the carousel collapses (to zero height) while the image is being downloaded and then expands back again. This creates a very bad and jarring effect. I found a solution to this here: https://coderwall.com/p/uf2pka/normalize-twitter-bootstrap-carousel-slide-heights