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Javascript DOM Listeners

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:52:34 +0000

I’ve wanted to build a simple gallery viewer for some time. “But there are thousands of already built viewers,” you may be thinking. Yes there are. But I wanted a simple viewer that was at once trés snappy and minimalist.

I dislike the gallery systems that open another window or create a floating panel which must be dismissed. I wanted a simple picture portal with simple thumbnails. I wanted something that didn’t require jacking javascript or event listeners directly into the html. It had to be easy to use with wordpress.

Another Try

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:00:05 +0000

Another try at cleaning the flickr css (ugh) and javascript (sucks).

What I did was to remove the javascript and index the thumbnails directly. I could put the links back in for each thumbnail but I’m thinking not. Rather, I would put a bit-o-javascript to have the thumbs control a larger portrait just to it’s right and a text box with the flickr description just below the thumbs+picture. There would still be a flickr badge linking to the original set.

Flickr Snickr

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:59:04 +0000

I’m looking at adding my snaps to flickr. Here’s a few from my trip to Hyderabad last year. It was a glorious day on the Deccan Plateau.

The flickr code is bloated and if I decide to keep it, it’ll need a css trim. Again, it seems a bit large for the sidebar but perhaps an alternate 2 column set will work.

www.flickr.com

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