I've been asked to make very "snazzy" looking web pages that rely heavily upon javascript, however it is also the policy of our University to insure that every web browser - even the oldest and most mediocre can access the same information.
To keep everyone happy I put a link at the top of the "javascript heavy" pages to a simpler plain html version of that offers the same information. Sounds lazy but with this approach I don't have to check that all different browsers work with the page. If anyone has trouble with the javascript they can choose the simpler version of the page. I found a very nice perl cgi script for presenting galleries of images. It organizes images in directories/folders - presenting all the images in a directory as on gallery. Once set up its easy to add images and comments. Thumbnails and images of varying sizes are automatically created. Since all the work is done by the server and this script the pages themselves depend soley on plain html, making them accessable from any browser that supports images. http://www.fuzzymonkey.org/perl/photo/README.html It designed for use on a unix system. It relies on the imaging application imagemagick to automatically manipulate the image files. I use it for some of my images http://cyano.usask.ca/cgi-bin/photo/index.cgi Oops just noticed the images resizing isn't working properly :( Gord On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, George L Smyth wrote: > I didn't realize that clicking on the picture brought up a larger version of > the image. I would recommend that that is a major usability problem. > Why are you using Javascript to do this? Don't get me wrong, I love > Javascript > (actually, I am teaching a class in it tonight), but in this particular case > it > is working as a real negative and is not really giving you any benefits. I > would very highly recommend using standard HTML for links to the larger > images. > I would also suggest not using popup windows, or if you must, to at least use > a window name for all images so that each picture doesn't have to be > individually closed. Also, as Richard noted, the links will not work with old > versions of Netscape, so by not using standard HTML you lock those people out. > > > Finally, the problem with frames is that you can't point anyone to a > particular > area of your website. For instance, instead of sending a link like > http://www.lesliedavisp at ???????/railways.htm to send someone to your > Railways > pictures, you have to send them to the main site, then tell them to search for > the proper picture to select, hoping that the rollover image has loaded (two > of > them took a long time to load, so at first I had no clue as to what those > areas > represented). > > Cheers - > > george > > ===== > Handmade Photographic Images > http://members.home.net/hmpi/ > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games > http://sports.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Post to the list as PLAIN TEXT only - no HTML > Pinhole-Discussion mailing list > Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? > unsubscribe or change your account at > http://www.???????/discussion/ > --------------------------------------------------------- Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology hol...@duke.usask.ca 112 Science Place http://duke.usask.ca/~holtsg University of Saskatchewan Tel (306) 966-4433 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Fax (306) 966-4461 Canada S7N 5E2 ---------------------------------------------------------
