There might be only one way to look at photos, but there are an infinite number of ways to organize and present them.
This
DHTML-driven browser-based app provides viewing of photos sorted by
collection. A few different CSS-driven "skins" are also available to
choose from. Thumbnails are dynamically displayed allowing for quick
visual searches within a collection, and XML/XSLT functionality
provides for more dynamic data sources and ease of updates.
Sound effects are also added for fun where supported, and are fairly simple to modify.
This
viewer is best suited for smaller collections of photos, although it
could easily enough be split across multiple pages or sections on a web
server; the idea is that all photos are accessible from one actual HTML
page, but this could be split to lower the page weight and load time.
Development and testing has been done under IE 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0, Netscape 7, Mozilla Firefox and Safari.
As a general notice, this project is in flux and functionality may change as bugs are found and fixed and features are added.