Very nice David, fast and clean. Don
> -----Original Message----- > From: David Mann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 5:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Testing a new gallery > > > 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/ > > >
