Comments on: .Mac Web Gallery on Prototype

By: subcorpus

subcorpus — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:40:40 +0000

its looks good …
but kinda slow for me …
may be coz i’m on a slow connection …
hehe …

By: Hater

Hater — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 04:25:54 +0000

What a bunch of lame asses. You all sit around tearing into other people’s work that you wouldn’t have a prayer of replicating. Not to mention the fact that nothing close to this has been done before, especially by any of you. I’m no Mac fanboy but give them their props for an app that is amazing and can only improve.

-nuff said

By: Steve Brewer

Steve Brewer — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:47:43 +0000

The page loading doesn’t have to be nearly so bad. They could do a lot of simple things (like not having 128 line comments in their javascript) to make things better. They could also use a film-strip image technique to really cut down on the number of requests they are sending on load. more here: http://www.bigdumbdev.com/2007/08/build-better-gallery-skimmer-part-1.html

By: el_vartauy

el_vartauy — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:39:35 +0000

iBloat:1384requests,2.66MB
wow!,amazing!

By: markus

markus — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:19:32 +0000

its really crashy on firefox here.
and slow :/

By: Steve Brewer

Steve Brewer — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:45:59 +0000

There is a lot they could do to reduce the page weight and load time. They aren’t even minifying the javascript. I was surprised they hadn’t even stripped whitespace out of the javascript…

By: Peter Pan

Peter Pan — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:28:11 +0000

@mac hating mac user: But it says Camino and not Firefox in the browser’s user agent … And by the way, it works anyway, just go ahead!

By: mac hating mac user

mac hating mac user — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:26:01 +0000

Hmmm…. on a mac..using camino and says they dont support it.

ajaxian? camino is the same rendering engine and javascript as firefox!

By: justin

justin — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:18:45 +0000

That is very impressive. Regardless of all the things you guys are pointing out it is a great idea. I am sure things will be continued to be cleaned up and optimized as the gallery evolves.

By: Justin L

Justin L — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:50:44 +0000

It is a heavy load, but it is damn impressive for a free web app.

With these web apps getting better and slicker all the time, Microsoft software should be obsolete fairly soon :)

Seriously the Google, Mac and Yahoo web apps are, even now, almost as solid and reliable as microsoft office equivilants, and much nicer to use

By: LucaPost

LucaPost — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:35:53 +0000

Really slick User interface; but from the point of view of a standard aware web developer a few bad implementation choiches were made, probably for marketing/switch2Mac/safari reasons... see the New .mac photo albums: OBTRUSIVE!

By: iBram

iBram — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:30:48 +0000

It’s a heavy load, but besides that this is one of the greatest galleries I’ve ever seen.
If you can write me that carousel in JS, be my guest.

By: wesley

wesley — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:46:53 +0000

I guess grandma on her 56k won’t be able to see the pictures after all.

By: Ignacio Giri

Ignacio Giri — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:36:21 +0000

I love it, but is too slow even with DSL

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:48:24 +0000

I really wish the cover flow was in js. I would really like to use this one one of my projects. Guess I need to brush up on my Flex.

By: Peter Goodman

Peter Goodman — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:29:19 +0000

Yet again apple adds something new to a product that just feels like it should be obvious and yet no one else has done it. I think the left-to-right rollover of a gallery thumbnail showing thumbnails of the pictures within is brilliant and I expect that soon it will be integrated into many other galleries out there–or at least be a demanded feature.

By: mark

mark — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:00:01 +0000

Not that I think most people need to test on strange browsers, but it’s probably worth it to point out going to that gallery on the Wii Browser crashes the Wii completely, to the point where you need to unplug it to get it working again.

By: randy

randy — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:48:12 +0000

none of you could have done that. shut it, it’s friggn awesome.

By: Uriel Katz

Uriel Katz — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:12:25 +0000

why they don`t use packer or something like that?

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:35:06 +0000

I guess the cool thing about this is that Apple is using Prototype and Scriptaculous to do this, more power to them.