Play is a rocked-up version of the old Blogger photoscroller, which has been kicking around in various public and not-quite-as-public places ever since there were Blogger photos. I wrote a bit more about that over at the Blogger Buzz.This is an interesting example of doing something in HTML and JavaScript that could probably be much better done in Flash, but hey: it works on the iPhone. I actually felt a bit Apple-y getting the polish done on the UI. The fade timing and speed slider settings took hours to get right. I hope you like them.
Joseph did the visual design, so give him all the credit for that. I worked from his mocks. And of course Pong, who wrote the original scroller and several since, and did all the backend coding and plugging together for this version. Katie made this launchable by cleaning out very nearly almost all of the images that aren’t good to show to people.
Enjoy! Remember to stop watching and do productive things.
I love it, i take off my hat pete.
ReplyDeletethere is only 2 more things i would add:
1.-full screen version
(if possible, like with a vimeo or a silverlight player))
2.-option to zoom in/zoom out
(i can do it well in IE7, but would be a nice addition)
Otherwise it is already almost perfect.
Hey there ~
ReplyDeleteYou guys don't make it easy to leave a compliment! (But I just kept trying my luck by clicking through link after link - and well, now I'm here.)
I just want to tell you how much Blogger Play rocks. It is so cool to see all the different images. It reminds me how big life really is - and even if I'm having a crappy day (which I was until I spent 2 minutes watching blogger play) someone somewhere else isn't. Seeing their happy/quirky/beautiful images reminds me life goes on and is worth all the crap.
Love it...thank you!
Lovely and Cool. Can we add it to our blogs using the Google Gadget Creator Page?
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