Flickr drops Flash for DHTML (from: Tommy Blogs)
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I’m sure I’m deeply in the minority, but I wish Flickr had not reimplemented their Flash interface as DHTML. I never had a problem with the speed of the Flash display and the implementation of notes — the key feature that got me to switch to Flickr in the first place — is poorer in the DHTML interface.
In particular, the outline for the notes doesn’t fade out smoothly, nor does it do it consistently: on many photos, the notes outline just stays up. If I reload the page, I can usually get it to go away, but that’s a frustrating behavior.
And I can’t work with notes at all via Maxthon, my preferred browser. I can create a note, and I can move the delimiting rectangle around the photo, but I can’t resize the outline. It works just fine in standard IE but not in Maxthon.
Now, should Flickr care about Maxthon? Maybe not, but it is a step backwards in my opinion.
But Flickr is still doing wonderful things. In particular, they’re now using IPTC data to generate titles, descriptions, and keywords. And that has made a world of difference. More about that in a later post.
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