Hi all,
Ever since I created my photo galleries I've been wanting to redo my
gallery viewer as I think it looks absolutely terrible. I wanted to
do something self-contained with the big image presented alongside
thumbnails. That's not an easy job in my case because the images can
have basically any aspect ratio, which makes a tidy presentation
extremely difficult.
Over the past day or so I've been working on a new concept but I'm
not sure how well it'll be accepted, as it's reliant on Javascript.
I have an idea for gracefully working around it but that'll take a
while to implement, and in the mean time I thought I might as well
get some feedback.
Here's the link:
http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/temp/gal/view.php
Some of the links in the page are deliberately broken but all of the
navigation within the gallery should work fine. I plan to add some
feedback to let you know when a file is loading, because the display
doesn't update until after the big pic has finished loading (on
dialup this could be a while).
I've tested with Safari, IE5 Mac, IE6 XP SP2, Camino, Firefox and
Opera. It works in all of them, but IE isn't quite as nice as the
others.
I wanted it to work in a 1024x768 screen but my vertical pics are 600
pixels high so the browser ideally needs to be in fullscreen mode
(F11 for IE). I'm undecided about automatically rescaling the
vertical ones, which would make things a lot easier.
The photos are a random selection from my trip to the West Coast in
2000. I chose them because that's about where my scanning project is
up to :)
Thanks,
- Dave
http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
