April 11, 2005
Deflashing Flickr.
Neil Kandalgaonkar popped into my view last month through his intriguing 50 people see… image blending project. Apparently sitting on his laurels is difficult for Neil, because he has just unveiled Lickr, an experimental interface for Flickr that replaces the standard Flash-based image display you know and love with one implemented entirely through HTML and JavaScript. This admitted ‘hack’ works only with Firefox and requires the Greasemonkey user script extension. A small price to pay if Flash gives you the usability hives. Perhaps the most interesting thing about Lickr is that it provides tinkerers with the beginnings of a JavaScript Flickr API, which as Neil points out, “… might be a good starting point for other browser-based projects.” No doubt about that.
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