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Dynamic Images

Philip — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:20:44 +0000

I think the concept behind BritePic is really awesome. It’s a simple way to add dynamic context, content and connectivity to a standard jpg image.

This also seems like it has some interesting potential…

swfIR is a new Flash replacement technique that replaces and adds visual effects to images on the fly using simple JavaScript. Itâ€™s similar to the the popular Flash text replacement technique, sIFR. You can, without physically editing an image, set borders, shadows, alpha transparencies, blurring, rotation and more to any image on your website.

With SWFir, make sure you read the known issues, there are some potential show stoppers in there.

Better upload

Philip — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 04:22:40 +0000

If you’re like me, you hate the browser form for uploading files. It can’t be styled in CSS. On each browser/platform it works and looks a bit different. It can only handle one file at a time. And there’s nothing you can do about it.

Until now.

SWF Upload looks like an awesome solution to these problems.

Some of the great features it supports…

Upload multiple files at once by ctrl/shift-selecting in dialog
Do progress-bars/information using valid XHTML and CSS
No page reloads, display uploaded files as they are finished
Degrades gracefully to a normal html upload form if Flash or javascript isn’t available