Patrick's Soapbox

I registered m.ac.nz a couple of weeks ago, had nothing to do with it so thought "I'll use it for experiments.

So, here's the first. Experiment A.

It's a slideshow of my photos with the tag favourite (though I can change that).

You can:

• Pause/resume by pressing space.
• Go to the next photo by pushing your right arrow key
• Go to the previous photo by pushing your left arrow key.

Geeky stuff:

• It's pure javascript
• Uses xmlhttprequest to interact with flickr's rest api
• Ok, so there's a PHP script to proxy requests (limits it to two functions, and uses a key shared between the page you download and the PHP script that changes regularly).
• Could fairly easily be made to show other peoples photos, or use a set, or...

The whole thing has only been tested extensively in Safari and Firefox. It should work in Internet explorer, but has not been tested there, and I offer no guarantees.

Shouldn't blow up your computer, but you may want to have a beer handy just in case.