RE: Flickr Re: Tech Whirler Dinner -- Thanks, Mom!

["Matt Horn" <mhorn -at- macromedia -dot- com>]

> eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com wrote:
> > Anyone know what the technology/programming behind the site is? My 
> > department is desperately looking for a way to organise and 
> classify 
> > photos taken of various equipment being documented.

The Slideshow is Flash. Unless I am missing something, classification is
just done with tags that users add when they upload images. I went
through the process to verify this and yes, that's it. For each photo,
you can type in a word or phrase (or multiples of each) that are then
considered classifications. 

There's no formal taxonomy, there's no auto-classification, there's
noone behind the green curtain.

> A killer Flickr feature that has ramifications for 
> documentation projects is the ability to add "Notes", which 
> are mouseover call-outs.

If your docs are in Flash, this is trivial.

> Close as I can tell, each gallery image in Flickr is rendered 
> as the background image of a Flash animation. 

Right. Pictures are loaded at runtime to reduce movie size.

Matthew J. Horn
Sr. Technical Writer
Macromedia

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