Introducing Scattr - the free Flickr viewing gadget

nifty. a few initial thoughts:

- would be great if i could pass the location of settings.xml as a PARAM in the OBJECT and attribute in the EMBED? this way, one could keep the settings file in a central location (in the same domain) and have instances of scattr on all pages referencing back to this single file

- taking the previous idea further: you could just pass the details you’re setting in the xml directly as PARAMs - unless you’re worried about people nicking the API key, but then again having it in a known location/filename only makes it marginally safer, if at all

- would love to have some easing in/out of the motion, a bit of rubber-band type inertia when moving the polas around; potentially, this could be governed by another setting/parameter?

on that last point, i assume you’ve already seen the videos for the bumptop prototype? http://honeybrown.ca/Pubs/BumpTop.html

Hi Patrick,

as always you come up with some great suggestions - and I promise I’ll fix the tab order on this comments form!

I think adding a PARAM to define the location of the XML file is a great idea. As for doing all the settings as PARAMs, I originally had it set up like that but the embed tag started to get a bit ugly - and I’d rather keep it a bit cleaner.

Oh and yes, I’ll put an easing setting in there too.

Expect an update sometime soon.

Excellent! I really like the ‘real world’ way of displaying the photographs. Thinking about how it might be personalised I think that maybe the following items would be great to have configurable in the xml file.

• Background image (could point to a fully qualified url)
• Thumbnail size - not sure if this is possible from the api, but would be a really great feature
• Size of main image - ditto
• Selection of photoset - is there a way of filtering the incoming photos based on a photoset (or is it album?)
• Customised photo canvas - the background image you use to create the ‘photo paper’.