New skin - Flickr - Feeling Lucky?

[Bonstio]

I have released a new skin of my own which utilises the Flickr API to
show photos of your choice.

Read more (inc pics) here http://bonstio.net/website-news/flickr-feeling-lucky.html

Try these Flickr group IDs
65811237@N00 - HDR Panoramas (used by default)
44055355@N00 - Interestingness Top 10
40961104@N00 - Wallpapers
86202697@N00 - Perfect Panoramas

More suggestions would be welcome!

[Deborah Lackey]

The "Feeling Lucky Skin" is awesome - great job! Thanks!

[Bonstio]

Hey Deborah

Thanks! I'm glad you like it! :D

[steve_rowe]

On Nov 30, 7:29 pm, Bonstio <bons...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have released a new skin of my own which utilises the Flickr API to
> show photos of your choice.

Hi, I really like this new "Feeling Lucky" skin.

Two issues, though:

1. Sometimes a background never loads - is it possible to give up and
attempt to load another image in this condition?

2. I would like to have a different tiling pattern, so that I can see
the photos better. Seems like there might be several patterns that
would be useful, depending on the aspect ratio of the photo in
question. For example, I would like panoramas to be resized so that
the entire vertical span fits above all the gadgets. Can this be
exposed as a configuration item?

Thanks for the excellent work.

[Bonstio]

Hi!

> 1. Sometimes a background never loads - is it possible to give up and
> attempt to load another image in this condition?

Sometimes the photos are big. In fact, they can be massive. I've seen
15mb images being loaded (sometimes quite slowly) from Flickr. If you
can't wait or want a new one, just re-select the skin and a new one
will load :)

> 2. I would like to have a different tiling pattern, so that I can see
> the photos better. Seems like there might be several patterns that
> would be useful, depending on the aspect ratio of the photo in
> question. For example, I would like panoramas to be resized so that
> the entire vertical span fits above all the gadgets. Can this be
> exposed as a configuration item?

Yes, it certainly can but the problem is you'd constantly be changing
it. I'm happy to experiment with this tho. It all revolves around the
css property background-position. Perhaps I could add a button to
cycle through the different possible values this property can take.
I'd be interested to listen to others' suggestions around this!

> Thanks for the excellent work.

My pleasure. Thanks for supporting my work!

[steve_rowe]

Hi,

Bonstio wrote:
> > 2. I would like to have a different tiling pattern, so that I can

> > see the photos better. [...]
>
> [...] It all revolves around the css property background-position.

> Perhaps I could add a button to cycle through the different
> possible values this property can take.

For this property, in addition to "top center", "bottom right", etc.,
you can mix percentages and #pixels for both height and width. I
guess there might be some "standard" percentages/#pixels
configurations, but ideally (IMHO) the full range of possibilities
would be exposed.

[liuy...@gmail.com]

Nice job!!!