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2.21.07

Spot Testing

Wednesday, 21 February 2007

Not too long ago, Katy sent me a couple of pictures she had taken, and suggested that I could post them. In an effort to kill two birds with one stone, I realized that I could not only post those pictures, but also roll out a new feature of tumbledry … besides the redesign you see. And yes, I’ll review the new features available to you in the coming days. And Nils will see some of his ideas posted, too. And there will be much rejoicing. And there will probably be some bug fixing.

Now, above you see what you might think is simply a small picture, but it’s actually a thumbnail link to a larger version of the same picture. Shocking, right? Actually, no. In fact, if the description was left at that, it’d be stunningly underwhelming, bordering on criminally boring. But the way the page is set up to show that new image is a whole lot of fun. If you click on it, you’ll get a nice “lightbox” effect, where the background fades out, and a captioned, full size picture animates into view. Plus, you can use the ‘N’ and ‘P’ keys to navigate forward and backwards between the two images in the set.

Granted, the demonstrative content is not particularly edifying (hey, this is tumbledry … we’ll work on it), but it’s still fun to show. I’m happy, Katy’s happy, you’re slightly less bored … everybody wins!

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