FlickrPlus Changes
I spent a good bit of time this weekend making changes to my FlickrPlus extension for Safari. Most of the changes are under the hood, but one in particular is not.
I’d never been happy with how I was displaying Exif data. I built and released that functionality quickly with the intent of iterating on the visual bits, but it’s hard to iterate when you can’t decide how to proceed. Even though I hated what I had done (at least as a permanent solution), the non-designer in me didn’t have a clear idea of how to make it better.
Late last week it hit me. What if I could find a way to display the Exif data on the “back” of the image?
Since this is a Safari extension, I don’t have to deal with cross-browser issues and Safari has outstanding support for CSS3—including transitions and animation. If I could treat the image as a some sort of card and apply an Exif panel to the back of that card, then I’d be able to “flip” the card to display the Exif info and flip it back when I was done reading. Think about that Kirk Gibson baseball card you had as a kid. How many times did you flip that card to read the stats? The same idea applies here.
Information about the extension as a whole and these changes in particular can be found on the project wiki page.
