drzylvon wrote:-For password protection, it's indeed a big requirement for me and I'm using it already in X2. But may I kindly request a slightly more developped model with perhaps user management (identified people : Mary, Roger, John + "anonymous passwords" like in X2)
I'd like to be able to say "this gallery is visible to Mary & Roger", "this one is visible to John", "this gallery is visible to anybody using the password".
We will definitely be adding password-protection, although we will need to consider how feasible it is to include an advanced user-groups password system. Will definitely consider it!
drzylvon wrote:-For navigation, we currently click on those left & right arrow icons, will we be able to set the clicking area to the full halves of the images? Some competing galleries I've used before had this and I liked it much, you don't need to move your mouse too accurately to navigate quickly, if you don't want to use the keys.
Are you referring to the slideshow- and/or popup module as below? (minimized screenshot)
By default, simply clicking anywhere on the image will go to next image, as that is normally the direction people will be navigating. Being able to click full halves of the image to choose direction is not a bad concept either, but I am not convinced it is a better solution. Keep in mind we have users on touch devices also ...
drzylvon wrote:-I believe it's still rather early but will there be an "upgrade" licence for existing users?
Yes! We want to show appreciation for existing customers.
drzylvon wrote:-About image resize. Does the resize happen server side before it's send to the client? I was never quite sure it was the case and that's why I ended up chosing rather "mediocre" file size.
Yes, the server resizes the image before it is sent to the browser. Imagevue X3 will however cache all resized images in a folder, so technically the actual resizing-process only happens initially as your various pages and layouts are accessed from various devices for the first time. Your gallery may therefore seem slightly sluggish on the first few visits. Thereafter, Imagevue will simply serve the resized images stored on server. As you can see at
mjau-mjau.com/concepts/grid/grid-cubes-big/, the images load relatively fast because the resizing has already happened, and Imagevue is simply serving cached pre-resized image files.
drzylvon wrote:-I like GRIDS a lot but I think the justified view of flickr is a little cleaner. In Flickr, height is fixed and they fit pictures through adjust width.
Are you referring to layouts like this
https://d.pr/i/liXp? This is already scheduled for integration, and you will see examples shortly. We aim to offer any modern layout variations into Imagevue. The "grid" variations you are currently seeing in the examples, are basically "masonry" style layouts, perhaps best exemplified here:
http://chromeography.com/. Both variations have a few benefits vs advantages.
drzylvon wrote:Also, could we set as a parameter the size of the separator and it's color ? Currently Grid Cubes Big has white borders, GRID 5 Big has none. So the user could set this ?
I tried to add some variations to the galleries, just to emphasize that you can apply various visual features across any gallery. Yes, the "gutter width" can be applied on a per-gallery basis. Color? There is currently no colors for the grid separator, and it simply shows the page background color between the element. You can easily apply colored frames around images though, as is emphasized in
this example.
drzylvon wrote:I'm looking forward to trying it out, do you have the faintest time frame for beta stage?
A good question. I may need another week just to figure out a vague timeline for this. Will let you know!
Thanks for feedback!