Gallery support

Ruby Apps Typo
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Matt R. [email protected] writes:

I think this is what the aim is in 4.1 All of the sidebars are in the
achieved, without re-writing my sidebars too many more times :wink:
I think the current bleading edge API’s going to be pretty constant
for a while. And porting (the core) sidebars was a fairly painless
process. I couldn’t work out how to do it programmatically, but apart
from that it was fine.

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Flickr gives you different sizes for each of the photos that act as
links to
your photo albums. So there is no need to resize for thumbnails when
they
already do it for you. You can just use the HTML they provide to make a
typo page with these image links. This effectively makes that typo page
your photo album and then anyone interested in a particular photo set
can
follow the links through to Flickr where you have tagging capability.

What I wish for is something that would generate HTML for a particular
photo
set that then links to Flickr, but as someone already said, the barrier
to
entry is already very very low and that’s not a showstopper.

23

Hey All,

Recently I’ve tried Flickr as well as the typo plugins for putting
photos on my blog, but what I found is that if I put more than 5
photos on one page/article it would just stop processing and give a
timeout (and I really tried fixing that!). Nor did I really like the
idea of putting all my photos on “some site” somewhere.

Maybe a shameless plug, but for the above reasons I have been working
on my own iPhoto/Flickr clone in Ruby on Rails, which is currently
still very limited:

  • It has an API (but no api-keys like Flickr), it doesn’t support the
    Flickr api’s though they should be somewhat similar.
  • The new version (in development) is supporting tags
  • There is currently no support for manipulating the photos on the
    server

However, I did write a Typo plugin which allows me to do photo
“popups” (uses lightbox.js) by “grabbing” individual photos or whole
albums, for me it already does what it needs to do. I’m working on
it, have not yet considered open-sourcing (but I might) and have some
good ideas…

More information on it and on the Typo plugin can be found here:
http://www.degrunt.net/articles/2006/08/06/drkroom-progress/

Regards,
Tom.

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On 8/20/06, [email protected] [email protected] wrote:

I have been thinking of implementing basic gallery support for typo.
The main benefit of this would be that all site’s data could be
handled at same place and design would be the same over the site.

The upcoming Mephisto 0.6 release looks like it’s going to support
taggable
images (and possibly/eventually galleries). The first screen shot on the
following page shows image thumbnails and a button named ‘Pictures’:

http://mephistoblog.com/2006/8/22/what-s-coming-in-0-6

Just FYI.