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Show HN: flipgrid.js, an experimental minimalist photo gallery

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Re: Show HN: flipgrid.js, an experimental minimalist photo gallery

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Post by t3hprogrammer »

ashray wrote: post #6
chapel wrote: post #4

I would love it if instead of having the image move to the center if it is on the outside, instead have the image appear around the thumbnail right where it is like the ones in the center. That would make it win completely. Otherwise it is very nice and simple in a good way.

Agreed. The eye tracking required to move from thumbnails placed in different regions to the center of the screen is a bit too much work. Enlarging the image right where it is might work better. Just a hunch though.

It's worth playing around with - I would definitely like to have the image fill as much of the space as possible.

Re: Show HN: flipgrid.js, an experimental minimalist photo gallery

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Post by doesnt_know »

Pretty cool. I think it could use some kind of feedback/indicator when I click on a photo and it's loading. I was clicking thumbnails and nothing was happening, wasn't sure what was suppose to happen. Turns out it was just loading, but there was no indication that was happening.

This wouldn't be a big problem, but the entire thing seems to rely on you going very slowly and only click one at a time and wait for it to load.

If I click another photo during that loading period, it mashes up the photos [1]. Scrolling down while a photo is in the center also doesn't appear to work well, if I click another photo it tries to bring it up and cuts them up [2]. Looks like it could do with some more testing my friend.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/uzUl0.png

[2] http://i.imgur.com/hqD9J.png

Re: Show HN: flipgrid.js, an experimental minimalist photo gallery

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Post by nkoren »

I'm currently testing this on a slow connection from an airport lounge in India. It's a pretty frustrating experience: I click on an image and receive no feedback about whether the click has registered. Sometimes the full image appears after 5-10 seconds, sometimes it never appears. Sometimes I click several times in the interim, and get weird results.

But I bet it is quite nice on a higher-speed connection.

This raises a question for me: what is the best way to simulate/create a low-speed connection, for UI testing purposes?

Re: Show HN: flipgrid.js, an experimental minimalist photo gallery

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Post by jskopek »

nkoren wrote: post #17

I'm currently testing this on a slow connection from an airport lounge in India. It's a pretty frustrating experience: I click on an image and receive no feedback about whether the click has registered. Sometimes the full image appears after 5-10 seconds, sometimes it never appears. Sometimes I click several times in the interim, and get weird results. But I bet it is quite nice on a higher-speed connection. This rai…

Charles (http://www.charlesproxy.com/) has been a permanent addition to my toolkit for this exact reason. Cross platform, cross browser HTTP monitoring and proxying with throttling and all sorts of goodies.

I believe there are several pure-CLI ways of doing this as well, but Charles is $40 well spent.

Re: Show HN: flipgrid.js, an experimental minimalist photo gallery

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Post by hmottestad »

nkoren wrote: post #17

I'm currently testing this on a slow connection from an airport lounge in India. It's a pretty frustrating experience: I click on an image and receive no feedback about whether the click has registered. Sometimes the full image appears after 5-10 seconds, sometimes it never appears. Sometimes I click several times in the interim, and get weird results. But I bet it is quite nice on a higher-speed connection. This rai…

On unix you can set up a pipe on the network with a speed limit.

Also, if you are on osx you can use apples own network simulator: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/24066/how-to-simula...

Re: Show HN: flipgrid.js, an experimental minimalist photo gallery

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Post by MasterScrat »

nkoren wrote: post #17

I'm currently testing this on a slow connection from an airport lounge in India. It's a pretty frustrating experience: I click on an image and receive no feedback about whether the click has registered. Sometimes the full image appears after 5-10 seconds, sometimes it never appears. Sometimes I click several times in the interim, and get weird results. But I bet it is quite nice on a higher-speed connection. This rai…

I use Sloppy for this: http://www.dallaway.com/sloppy/

SO topic on this subject: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1094760/network-tools-tha...

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