Portland pictures

[dougo]

At long last, I've gotten around to hacking up a bare-bones picture browser servlet on my home website. It's basically just pages with next/prev links, but I think that's still better than a plain index of links directly to image files. I plan to add various other niceties (thumbnails, index pages, labels, captions, viewer comments... other suggestions welcome), but who knows when I'll get around to it.

I'm using an iframe to hold the picture because that seems to work the best on Firefox: it automatically resizes the picture to your browser window, and then you can click on the picture to toggle it to full size (with scrollbars). Opera and Internet Explorer don't do this—you just get the scrollbars—but at least all three browsers let you pan around by dragging with the middle button. I have no idea how it looks on other browsers. If you have a better suggestion, either something portable (preferably) or platform-specific, let me know. At some point I will probably pre-scale the pictures to save bandwidth, but I'm not sure how important this is.

Anyway, have a look at pictures from my Portland trip, starting at 6643. Here are some of my favorites:

Dad & stepmom signing the log for a geocache a few blocks from their house
greyaenigma playing Go at the Japanese festival
Costumed wanderer
Wedding party at the World Forestry Center
Vietnam memorial, spiraling up the hillside
Bungalow at Rockaway Beach
...with ocean view
Dad & stepmom on the foggy beach
"Captain Ron"
Gnomes and Moai at Flamingo Jim's
"Artsy Fartsy Jackrabbit"
"Abrupt Edge"
Whitecaps
Night at the beach, after drinks
Watching the fire
Logjam
Dune bench
"Entering a TsunamiReady Community"
jfb and his Vermillion Lies
Kendra, Dad, Glenn, Dave
Erik in a suit and bad lighting
Cedar in the deck

Comments

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Well, my connection's really slow, so they'd still be slow at 1024x768. But maybe less slow enough.

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

Hey, cool -- thanks!

[nosrednayduj]

Scaling would be good. I have my IE set up not to autoscale to fit window, so I have to scroll if they're big. Maybe this is dumb, but I don't know how to undo it when it does it when what I want is to see a small bit in big enough resolution. Having the captions in the viewer would be useful too; it's not really useful to scroll through since the captions are only here on this page.

Also I live in the early 80's and download time is noticeable.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

It's okay, they're married.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a servlet I wrote for the PLT Scheme web server. On the to-do list is to publish the source.