darryl
May-18-2009, 09:51 PM
Non-Rant Version:
For standard (non-embedded Slideshows), I want the viewer to be able to
- Hide Thumbnails
- Display Thumbnails on bottom
- Go forward and backwards with keyboard shortcuts
Rant Version:
So this is for non-Pros/Power users, or for Pro/Power Users that are lazy like me.
I like the occasional Slide Show. It's nice to be looking at a gallery and click the "Slideshow" button and get some full-screen goodness.
But I *HATE* automatic advance. I want control.
Ok, I know Flash 9 doesn't allow keyboard control for full-screen apps (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10_security_changes_03.html). Fine fine. That can wait until the Flash 10 penetration rate is higher. (Although feh -- can't you add it now? It seems like it would be backwards-compatible with people using 9.)
Ok fine, no keyboard control. I can hover over the right-hand side of the screen and click the very nice Next arrow...
OMGWTFLOLBBQ!? The thumbnail bar pops down? Every time I move the mouse anywhere on the screen, not just at the top? WHAT? Whose bright idea was that?
And the hugely intrusive thumbnail bar pops down *first* before the arrow keys? And it lingers around longer than them too?
And HELLO, who wants thumbnails at the top of the screen? Why isn't it at the bottom? Or why isn't that a user-selectable option? And what about being able to hide the thumbnails, right next to the option to "Hide Captions".
Please *DON'T* tell me the Slide Show is customizable. I know it is, if I'm embedding one on my home page or elsewhere. I'm talking about the Slideshow button that is available at the top of every gallery.
I can't believe in that stinking long thread about the new Flash goodness nobody talked about basic usability for *non-embedded" slide shows. Well, I'm talking about it now.
[Yeah, sorry, I'm in a punchy mood, but I was trying to look at some galleries the other day, and Lightbox was super-laggy, so I figured I'd fire up Slideshow, which I seldom use. And ugh, these things really bugged me. "Really. Tell us how you really feel, Darryl?"]
For standard (non-embedded Slideshows), I want the viewer to be able to
- Hide Thumbnails
- Display Thumbnails on bottom
- Go forward and backwards with keyboard shortcuts
Rant Version:
So this is for non-Pros/Power users, or for Pro/Power Users that are lazy like me.
I like the occasional Slide Show. It's nice to be looking at a gallery and click the "Slideshow" button and get some full-screen goodness.
But I *HATE* automatic advance. I want control.
Ok, I know Flash 9 doesn't allow keyboard control for full-screen apps (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10_security_changes_03.html). Fine fine. That can wait until the Flash 10 penetration rate is higher. (Although feh -- can't you add it now? It seems like it would be backwards-compatible with people using 9.)
Ok fine, no keyboard control. I can hover over the right-hand side of the screen and click the very nice Next arrow...
OMGWTFLOLBBQ!? The thumbnail bar pops down? Every time I move the mouse anywhere on the screen, not just at the top? WHAT? Whose bright idea was that?
And the hugely intrusive thumbnail bar pops down *first* before the arrow keys? And it lingers around longer than them too?
And HELLO, who wants thumbnails at the top of the screen? Why isn't it at the bottom? Or why isn't that a user-selectable option? And what about being able to hide the thumbnails, right next to the option to "Hide Captions".
Please *DON'T* tell me the Slide Show is customizable. I know it is, if I'm embedding one on my home page or elsewhere. I'm talking about the Slideshow button that is available at the top of every gallery.
I can't believe in that stinking long thread about the new Flash goodness nobody talked about basic usability for *non-embedded" slide shows. Well, I'm talking about it now.
[Yeah, sorry, I'm in a punchy mood, but I was trying to look at some galleries the other day, and Lightbox was super-laggy, so I figured I'd fire up Slideshow, which I seldom use. And ugh, these things really bugged me. "Really. Tell us how you really feel, Darryl?"]