There are lots of possible tech solutions if you have to do this - infinite
scrolling, lazy loading (example:
http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/lazyload) but really I'd question what
user value there is to having 450 images of...well, anything.
I don't think I'd go single image but instead maybe load in 10 other as
thumbs, but do it nicely so you've got a responsive lightboxy thing going
on and then just deal with the others as additional views or whatever.
Certainly loading 450 at once is a no-go... :-)
Mike
On Friday, February 13, 2015, Tony Crockford <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > On 13 Feb 2015, at 16:09, Andrew Davis <
> [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > Are we missing something obvious? As always, there's budgetary
> constraints at work, and we need to have something that we can make
> available in the near future, but we'd need the solution to be scalable and
> ideally one that will last us for the lifetime of this iteration of our
> online collection.
> >
> > Any comments and suggestions gratefully received!
>
> As a user I really don’t like slow loading pages with huge galleries of
> images and I really, really don’t like page turning presentations.
>
> As a developer I can see why your developers might suggest limiting the
> number per record, but I’d be suggesting going further and presenting each
> record with a *single* image initially, but create a series of linked pages
> for every other image you have for that record (a user will only download
> them until they get bored - storage space is then your consideration - 450
> images sounds like a whole book!
>
> A list of links to images is one way, a link to the first image that links
> to the next is another. The web is good at hyperlinking and loading
> images, it breaks when you try and load all the images at once and display
> them one by one (like most javascript galleries do)
>
> Your developer should be able to prepare html files for each image that
> links to the next - if you wish to add a page turning paradigm to that,
> just have the next and previous links at the corners…
>
> If you keep the web simple it will be fast and enjoyable.
>
> Just my Friday 2p worth of opinion.
>
> :o)
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