brucie said:
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i must have missed that one. did anyone die?
I'll leave you to judge. (Actually, the discussion was whether a particular
example was crap & sucked, not dull):
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]
Its importance, for me, was to convice me to be less ambitious about having a
floating-thumbnail gallery. I began to suspect that some the problems, that I
couldn't solve, couldn't be solved by people with far more expertise in CSS
than me.
of course. its just my pet hate that css gives you so many fun and
giggly options to arrange images but people only seem to be interested
in attempting to emulate the same layout a table gives. i don't see
why they don't just keep using tables (until crappy IE supports
css-tables).
I have a slightly different point of view. I sometimes wonder why people don't
have more fun and use more giggly options with tables! They are only nested
elements - even IE 5 can take them apart and do weird things with them, with
just bog-standard CSS. My latest attempt was to devise a diagonally-displayed
table - I haven't got it working properly in Opera yet:
http://www.barry.pearson.name/articles/table_pages/exhibit08.htm
Why? Why not? These are precisely the same table:
http://www.barry.pearson.name/articles/table_pages/exhibit05.htm
http://www.barry.pearson.name/articles/table_pages/exhibit07.htm
not enough nudity although the iguanas getting it on do somewhat make
up for it.
Chuckle!
it would be much nicer if the images were all the same size and
remember the thumb doesn't have to be a miniature of the larger image.
Ah! There was a special reason for that, and for the other things you reject.
These thumbnail galleries were an attempt at illustrating a real-world display
of photographs. The Royal Photographic Society doesn't judge individual
photographs. Instead, it treats a panel of 10, 15, or 20, (depending on the
distinction), as a collective piece of evidence, and that evidence includes
the hanging-plan. I'm using the thumbnail-gelleries for both links to
individual photographs, and a representation of the 8-foot by 3-foot panels I
submitted.
It is quite likely that, in the new (floating-thumbnail) gallery I am
developing, the images will have the characteristics you mention. There are
not for photographs as photographs, they will be photographs as illustrations
of history. The thumbnail gallery will simply be a lot of links, not a formal
display in its own right.
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rather than thinking of it as a novelty how about creativity without
sacrificing usability.
OK, but unfortunately I lack creativity in the "visual arts".