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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	For some reason the URL is borked up there. It should be: [url]http://www.pwhitrow.com/blog/entries/2009/04/06/xflow-a-javascript-and-php-based-coverflow-style-gallery/[/url] At least I think that's what it should be, because I get an internal server error (500) on the page after a long delay. :( [Edit: I take that back... it seems to be working now. I didn't read everything on that page, but just scrolled down to the link to the actual gallery so I could check it out. At first glance, it looks pretty nifty. But then I clicked on the photo in the foreground, and it took me to a blank page with a spinning timer. That was over a minute ago, and nothing seems to be happening. Hmm. OK... went back to the beginning and tried it again, and now it seems to work--it gives me the larger pic. Cool. Right, so, some constructive criticism. For starters, the navigation bar bugs me. The arrows work fine, but the button(?) in the middle seems to exhibit some weird behavior. As an indicator of where you are in the gallery I have no problem with it, but once you try to use it to navigate, things get funky. My first instinct was to grab the button and drag it, but it doesn't move and the cursor turns into that "not movable" icon (the circle with the slash through it). But once you let go of the mouse button the navigation button jumps to where your cursor is, and then it stays "stuck" to your cursor, so if you move your mouse back and forth and the button moves. You have to click to get it to let go. After seeing this behavior, I thought, "Oh, so I have to click on the button to activate it, and then click again to deactivate it." But it doesn't work that way either--clicking on the button does nothing. Then I thought that maybe if you clicked on the navigation bar the button would jump to that point. But that doesn't work either. So your only option is to drag the button and then let go of the mouse button to get control. It's not really that intuitive, and it feels weird. I guess what it comes down to, for me at least, is that you have what looks like a very familiar navigation bar, yet the only parts of it that act like a traditional navigation system are the arrows on either end--the middle is (or feels) busted. Also, in the large photo view, there is a link on the bottom that says "View full image." When I read that I thought, "Oh, so the original must be even larger." But it's not--it just displays the image by itself on a blank page. I have no idea why you would even want to do this in the first place, but I suppose if for some reason you would want to, the link should say something other than "view full image"--because you're already viewing the full image. I guess that's it for now. The actual flipping through the gallery without the navigation bar is pretty cool, I must say. Overall, I like it, but the nav bar went completely counter to my expectations. [img]http://www.liminality.org/asylum/sigs/quickie.gif[/img] ___________________________ Suho: [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/4837]Cell 270[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5689]Sig Rotator[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/22173]the Fellowship of Sup[/url] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/2031]Suho1004[/url] on 04-08-2009 14:27)[/small] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/2031]Suho1004[/url] on 04-08-2009 14:30)[/small] Loading...
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