Posted by Els on 01/29/08 13:53

Travis Newbury wrote:

> On Jan 29, 5:42 am, Els <els.aNOS...@tiscali.nl> wrote:
>> Travis Newbury wrote:
>>> On Jan 29, 2:22 am, Els <els.aNOS...@tiscali.nl> wrote:
>>>>> Flash may not be the best tool for this job. But it does do slide
>>>>> shows well, so the OP should at least take a look at it.
>>>> Not objecting to that, although his question was really only about how
>>>> to lay out the thumbnails on the page ;-)
>>> Right, and the layout is part of what you would do in Flash.
>> But then you'd have no advantage over a table layout. Or does Flash
>> have a way to know how wide the browser window is and use that to
>> calculate how many thumbnails would be sitting in each row?
>
> Yes, I could find the width of the window that I am sitting in and
> make the appropriate modifications in the xScale and yScale properties
> of the sprite(s) I load the thumb into.

As I'm not sure what sprites are in this respect, does that mean the
thumb would get smaller in a smaller window, or that instead of 5
thumbs there'd be 4? I've seen enough Flash that scales with the
window, but it only means that on small windows the text gets *really*
unreadable :-)

Anyway, if the number of thumbs per row can be dependent on window
width, then I agree Flash wouldn't be that bad for it. Except still
for accessibility of course...

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