Comments on: 10 Cool Things About The New Yahoo! Photos http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/08/17/the-new-yahoo-photos-10-cool-things/ News and Artilces about Designing and Developing with Yahoo! Libraries. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:53:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Ham http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/08/17/the-new-yahoo-photos-10-cool-things/#comment-89996 Ham Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:28:19 +0000 http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/08/17/the-new-yahoo-photos-10-cool-things/#comment-89996 Pity that as paying Yahoo customer I still dont get access to the new yahoo photos. More than 6 months after the launch in the US seems the UK (and probably the rest of the world) is far behind receiving the service. From this blog I figured out that its probably the fact that Yahoo wont make any extra money from the printing services that they point you to in the US in this release. Come on Yahoo, please dont make me move over to Google Picassa! Pity that as paying Yahoo customer I still dont get access to the new yahoo photos. More than 6 months after the launch in the US seems the UK (and probably the rest of the world) is far behind receiving the service.
From this blog I figured out that its probably the fact that Yahoo wont make any extra money from the printing services that they point you to in the US in this release.
Come on Yahoo, please dont make me move over to Google Picassa!

]]> By: Crisi http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/08/17/the-new-yahoo-photos-10-cool-things/#comment-13292 Crisi Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:33:26 +0000 http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/08/17/the-new-yahoo-photos-10-cool-things/#comment-13292 I just signed up for a yahoo account so that I could use the photos section. Everything else works except the photos. It is telling me that "account creation failed." I have tried their help section, but nothing seems to fix my problem. Help? Please? I just signed up for a yahoo account so that I could use the photos section. Everything else works except the photos. It is telling me that “account creation failed.” I have tried their help section, but nothing seems to fix my problem. Help? Please?

]]> By: April http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/08/17/the-new-yahoo-photos-10-cool-things/#comment-11787 April Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:32:27 +0000 http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/08/17/the-new-yahoo-photos-10-cool-things/#comment-11787 I love the new Yahoo Mail and the new Yahoo Photos! Brilliant! Rock on! I love the new Yahoo Mail and the new Yahoo Photos! Brilliant! Rock on!

]]> By: Gilles http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/08/17/the-new-yahoo-photos-10-cool-things/#comment-9700 Gilles Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:15:19 +0000 http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/08/17/the-new-yahoo-photos-10-cool-things/#comment-9700 I was wondering if the code you show here is going to be released in YUI! library. I would like to see code for: - Selecting (block) elements like windows select e.g. with ctrl and shift etc. - If you start dragging them that they resize and follow the mouse. Any chance? I was wondering if the code you show here is going to be released in YUI! library.
I would like to see code for:
- Selecting (block) elements like windows select e.g. with ctrl and shift etc.
- If you start dragging them that they resize and follow the mouse.

Any chance?

]]> By: UI! Possibilities! (Yahoo Photos) at DCInteract Blog http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/08/17/the-new-yahoo-photos-10-cool-things/#comment-9214 UI! Possibilities! (Yahoo Photos) at DCInteract Blog Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:31:31 +0000 http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/08/17/the-new-yahoo-photos-10-cool-things/#comment-9214 [...] 10 Cool Things About The New Yahoo! Photos: Yahoo’s new photo site sports some neat visual effects–not only drag and drop, but grouped drag and drop, fancy placeholder effects, etc. (Watch the first screencast!) It’s all JavaScript (though apparently it doesn’t use Yahoo’s user-interface library). [...] […] 10 Cool Things About The New Yahoo! Photos: Yahoo’s new photo site sports some neat visual effects–not only drag and drop, but grouped drag and drop, fancy placeholder effects, etc. (Watch the first screencast!) It’s all JavaScript (though apparently it doesn’t use Yahoo’s user-interface library). […]

]]> By: Andrew http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/08/17/the-new-yahoo-photos-10-cool-things/#comment-7925 Andrew Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:00:45 +0000 http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/08/17/the-new-yahoo-photos-10-cool-things/#comment-7925 I received the beta a few days ago. It is very cool, and yet it has a few uncool UI issues, especially compared to Picasa Web Albums (from Google)- The images are too small on screen. There should be a choice for thumbnail image size. Viewing individual images or slideshows should scale to fill the browser. There should be a 100% view option. Flipping between images when viewing them individually should be much more intuitive and faster. The left and right arrows are tucked in the upper right corner instead of immediately above or below the picture. There is a slowish delay when paging through images. Each of these points is much better handled in Picasa Web Albums. Obviously there are a lot of features in YP that are best-of-class. I love the drag and drop, inline editing and selection tray. The use of a token that expires for sharing arbitrary photo collections is very well done. But I find myself uploading to Picasa more often than Yahoo photos, because looking at a photo album there is a better experience. p.s. one of the web usability gurus had a principal that said something to the effect of unless the status quo is hoplessly broken, you are better off using the established standard than inventing a new user interface, even if it is marginally better. I wonder if double clicking the thumbnail images to open them fits in this category. I don't know of any web application that uses a double click in this context and I know I've found myself single clicking and wondering why the photo doesn't open. I received the beta a few days ago. It is very cool, and yet it has a few uncool UI issues, especially compared to Picasa Web Albums (from Google)-

The images are too small on screen. There should be a choice for thumbnail image size. Viewing individual images or slideshows should scale to fill the browser.

There should be a 100% view option.

Flipping between images when viewing them individually should be much more intuitive and faster. The left and right arrows are tucked in the upper right corner instead of immediately above or below the picture. There is a slowish delay when paging through images.

Each of these points is much better handled in Picasa Web Albums.

Obviously there are a lot of features in YP that are best-of-class. I love the drag and drop, inline editing and selection tray. The use of a token that expires for sharing arbitrary photo collections is very well done.

But I find myself uploading to Picasa more often than Yahoo photos, because looking at a photo album there is a better experience.

p.s. one of the web usability gurus had a principal that said something to the effect of unless the status quo is hoplessly broken, you are better off using the established standard than inventing a new user interface, even if it is marginally better. I wonder if double clicking the thumbnail images to open them fits in this category. I don’t know of any web application that uses a double click in this context and I know I’ve found myself single clicking and wondering why the photo doesn’t open.

]]> By: Yahoo! Publisher Network » Blog Archive » Why UI? http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/08/17/the-new-yahoo-photos-10-cool-things/#comment-5766 Yahoo! Publisher Network » Blog Archive » Why UI? Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:55:11 +0000 http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/08/17/the-new-yahoo-photos-10-cool-things/#comment-5766 [...] 10 Cool Things About the New Yahoo! Photos—As the name implies, these are some tips on ways that developers and publishers can get the most out of Yahoo! Photos. [...] […] 10 Cool Things About the New Yahoo! Photos—As the name implies, these are some tips on ways that developers and publishers can get the most out of Yahoo! Photos. […]

]]> By: devlon duthie » Blog Archive » links for 2006-08-18 http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/08/17/the-new-yahoo-photos-10-cool-things/#comment-5576 devlon duthie » Blog Archive » links for 2006-08-18 Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:37:55 +0000 http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/08/17/the-new-yahoo-photos-10-cool-things/#comment-5576 [...] 10 Cool Things About The New Yahoo! Photos » Yahoo! User Interface Blog The New Yahoo! Photos has a lot of cool features not commonly found on the web. Drag and drop and inline editing makes getting things done with your photos fast and easy, and it just feels more like a rich application. (tags: ui) [...] […] 10 Cool Things About The New Yahoo! Photos » Yahoo! User Interface Blog The New Yahoo! Photos has a lot of cool features not commonly found on the web. Drag and drop and inline editing makes getting things done with your photos fast and easy, and it just feels more like a rich application. (tags: ui) […]

]]> By: Darryl.net » The New Yahoo! Photos - Now Available in the U.S. http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/08/17/the-new-yahoo-photos-10-cool-things/#comment-5501 Darryl.net » The New Yahoo! Photos - Now Available in the U.S. Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:50:35 +0000 http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/08/17/the-new-yahoo-photos-10-cool-things/#comment-5501 [...] Last week, we launched Yahoo! Photos v3 to the U.S.  You can read the official press release, or check out the usual suspects.  This is the culmination of over a year’s worth of effort - an entire re-write of the site from the ground up.  Because we were able to start from scratch, you will notice many new features and “web 2.0″ concepts not found on other sites of this scale. [...] […] Last week, we launched Yahoo! Photos v3 to the U.S.  You can read the official press release, or check out the usual suspects.  This is the culmination of over a year’s worth of effort - an entire re-write of the site from the ground up.  Because we were able to start from scratch, you will notice many new features and “web 2.0″ concepts not found on other sites of this scale. […]

]]> By: Rob http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/08/17/the-new-yahoo-photos-10-cool-things/#comment-5436 Rob Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:05:34 +0000 http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/08/17/the-new-yahoo-photos-10-cool-things/#comment-5436 Can anybody tell me. I'm a flickr pro user. Is there a) an upload / storage limit with Yahoo b) when you upload your original picture (e.g 7.1 megapixel photo) does it store the oringal size (like flickr) to be downloaded at a later date? Can anybody tell me. I’m a flickr pro user. Is there a) an upload / storage limit with Yahoo b) when you upload your original picture (e.g 7.1 megapixel photo) does it store the oringal size (like flickr) to be downloaded at a later date?

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