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Re: Facebook Updates Their Galleries

William O'Neill — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:44:23 -0000

I clearly remember a discussion with my mom back in the 90's about the potential of javascript preloading scripts. I thought at the time that she was crazy, but apparently she was right on! The poof is in the prudding when it comes to smooth graphic interfaces. And no... it really isn't straight AJAX, but who cares?

Re: Facebook Updates Their Galleries

facebooker — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:12:37 -0000

now if only they'll add that option to let you choose only specific individual/contact(s) to view your photo albums. the "only friends" option is not sufficient. facebook really needs to learn from multiply in the photos department.

Re: Facebook Updates Their Galleries

Tan The Man — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:19:51 -0000

Finally. Smoothness is definitely a plus.

Re: Facebook Updates Their Galleries

Nick O'Neill — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:09:03 -0000

Great point Dan. Thanks for pointing out that it isn't completely AJAX. It is instead a javascript preloading script. Regardless, it makes things a lot smoother!

Re: Facebook Updates Their Galleries

Ben Kessler — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:45:41 -0000

Yeah, this is awesome, I wrote in about it and wasn't sure if I was crazy or not. iPhone users have enjoyed this for sometime now and it's nice to see it finally make it to the full site.

Re: Facebook Updates Their Galleries

Dan Jones — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:33:14 -0000

I don't think I would really count that as AJAX.
To be considered as proper AJAX, it has to use the XMLHttpRequest (or
the IE equivalent). However, what Facebook has done is put all the
data for the entire photo album on the page when you load it. Open up
an image, and look at the pages, source. Near the bottom of the page,
you'll see inside a tag, something like this:

onloadRegister(function() {new Photostream($("myphoto"),
"http:\/\/photos-d.ak.facebook.com\/photos-ak-sf2p ...

This is probably what I would have done as well. I think it's great.