Frank,
It is not just you. I also refuse installing Flickr app.
If someone wants to do that, I have no problem, and it can be useful
for uploading your gallery or "socializing" with other Flickrers.
But my phone is not a dump to install an individual app for each website
that created it. All those apps use extra storage, RAM and CPU.
The initial and overall idea of the WEB is that it could be seen from ANY
standard-compliant browser.
Also, I am wary about all apps that have many unnecessary permissions.
(I am talking about Android here.) While Flickr app has reasonable
permissions, but it wants to "read your contacts". I understand that
these days all apps that are trying to be "social" do that, but
I don't need to share my contacts just to see photos on web-pages.
I never checked for systematics, - but there is at least one type of view
in Flickr that I had problems in at least two differen mobile browsers:
Opera and Chrome. In that view the image was too small, and I couldn't
zoom-in to fill the screen with the image.
I haven't seen it most recently, - maybe they've fixed it, or I just
haven't gotten links to that view.
For the record, I have nothing against Flickr service in general, my wife
has been using a paid account for many years, and she is happy with what
it does for her. (I am not using it myself, as I don't like the G+ -like
interface.)
Speaking of the photo-hosting websites that don't behave well with the
mobile browsers on my phone: photo.net doesn't allow zooming the images,
but most of the time the image looks fine (e.g. recent image posted by
Paul S.)
BTW, Frank, - your blog photos do not show well in Mobile browsers (e.g.
Opera, and I believe Chrome, possibly even FF) on my phone:
The photo is small, taking just a small portion of the screen, and the
webpage doesn't allow to be zoomed-in.
Igor
On Aug 11, 2015, at 3:16 AM, Knarf wrote:
The issue is I didn't want to download their app. I don't care if it's
"free". I want to click on a link and look at a photo on my browser without
having to join, register and be a part of something.
I think it's despicable behaviour on their part. Perhaps I'm alone in my
thinking; wouldn't be the first time.
BTW, nothing is "free".
Cheers,
frank
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