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Santosh Kalwar
Santosh Kalwar is Doctor of Science in Technology (Human-computer Interaction) - Computer Scientist - Entrepreneur - Software/Web Developer - Writer/Author - Poet - and a simple human being.
The Dominion Building (originally Dominion Trust Building) is a commercial building in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Located on the edge of Gastown (207 West Hastings St), it was Vancouver's first steel-framed high-rise.[4] Its architect was John S. Helyer,[5] who is said to have died after falling off the staircase in the front of the building, though this is an urban legend.[6]
The financier of the structure was the Count Alvo von Alvensleben from Germany, who was active in Vancouver's financial scene at the time. It was known generally that von Alvensleben was one of the Kaiser's godsons. It was held at the time that he was a front for the Kaiser's money, which carried the suggestion that the Empire's tallest building had been built by its greatest rival, a rumour which disregards the fact that the tallest building in the Empire was in fact the Trader’s Bank Building in Toronto, completed in 1906 at 55.39m in height.
Today it is a provincially designated Class "A" heritage structure.
Owned by Newton Investments Limited, it was restored by restoration expert Read Jones Christofferson. The building's current tenants include a film production company (Haddock), a law firm, clothing designers, record labels, antiquarian booksellers, Kokoro Dance, professional web developers, marketing agency, Bowery Creative, the office of the Green Party of Vancouver, a dentist, non-profit organizations such as Living Oceans Society and Fair Trade Vancouver and a Lebanese restaurant, Nuba.
The Dominion Building sits across the street from Victory Square, site of the former provincial courthouse, which was relocated to Georgia Street in 1913. The Dominion Building was at the hub of the city's financial and legal district until that move.
Thunder and lightning storm at 30000 feet on my trip from Florida back to Los Angeles. I'm guessing below is Oklahoma... certainly it's the Plains.
Explore 09 May, 2021
The Dominion Building is a thirteen-storey Beaux-Arts style commercial structure on West Hastings Street in Vancouver.
The building is a symbol of early civic pride and an easily recognized Vancouver landmark.
Designed in 1908-1910 by architect J. S. Helyer, it was, at the time, the highest building in the British Empire with a height of 147 feet, 6 inches,
To a steel-framed Chicago-style high rise, Helyer added classical columns, Sullivanesque detailing above the tenth floor, and a Second Empire curved mansard roof.
The interior design was even more unusual: a central core design with a ten-storey spiral staircase.
The Imperial Trust Company could raise only half the $600,000 estimated cost to build and so they floated an issue of bonds to raise the rest.
Citizens were invited to invest in a "building that will be a landmark in the city, and object of pride to every loyal citizen."
When public response was less than satisfactory, the firm arranged a hasty merger with the Dominion Trust Company, which assumed ownership of the building in late 1908.
The building was complete by March 1910, but the anticipated rush of prospective tenants failed to materialize; the central core layout proved inefficient in terms of usable office space.
The Dominion Trust Company, like the Bank of Vancouver - failed, symbolic of the hopes that Vancouver residents had for the city becoming a financial metropolis and their eagerness for speculating in real estate.
Both financial institutions collapsed with the end of the real estate boom and The Dominion Trust Company was forced to sell its only assset - the building - to the Dominion Bank (no relationship).
The Dominion Bank sold the building in 1943 to S. J. Cohen, president of the Army and Navy Department Stores, who intended to convert it into a multi-storey department store at the end of the war. The plan was never carried out.
When the Dominion Bank merged with the Bank of Toronto, a branch of the new Toronto-Dominion Bank was housed in the building.
TRIVIA:
What inspired the Vancouver Fire Department to invest in a motorized aerial ladder? The mansard-roofed Dominion Trust Building.
In January 2008, the Dominion Trust building was granted national registered heritage status.
Today, the Dominion Building is a property of Army & Navy Properties Ltd.
Current tenants include a film production company, clothing designers, record labels, antiquarian booksellers, Kokoro Dance, professional web developers, a dentist, non-profit organizations such as Living Oceans Society and Fair Trade Vancouver, an artist’s supply store, Opus, and a Lebanese restaurant, Nuba, in the basement.
UPDATE:
13 October, 2021
The Toronto-based Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust has bought Vancouver’s Dominion Building from the Cohen family.
Sam Cohen bought the building in 1943 and the family has held it since.
In a statement, Allied CEO Michael Emory said the company would be a “worthy successor owner to Army & Navy Properties in terms of both sensitivity and commitment to Downtown Vancouver.”
Army & Navy Properties is the holding company for assets belonging to Vancouver’s Cohen family, with its genesis being the Army & Navy store opened by Sam Cohen in 1919 — the year after the end of the First World War when there was a lot of military surplus around.
The store, at 44 West Hastings St., stayed open until last year when it closed due in part to the impacts of COVID-19. The building is currently in use as a homeless shelter and will be redeveloped into rental housing.
Army & Navy Properties has significant real estate holdings, including their retail locations in New Westminster, Edmonton and Calgary, and until now the Dominion Building.
White Sands Missile testing military facility… I’m not sure how I got in here to take a photo. I was the only USA passport holder, but I didn’t have my passport. I was also with 2 kiwis and our web developer from Brazil. via Instagram ift.tt/1Rc4fmd
This piece now belongs to my boy Nick Kwiatek. If you're a web developer or UI geek, you'll love his site. Check it out:
Fozzie: “Hi, neighbor! Can you tell me a little about yourself? What’s your name?”
Gingerbread man: “I don’t have one, so you can just call me John Dough, but that’s on a knead-to-know basis.”
Fozzie: “Do you work anywhere?”
Gingerbread man: “I turned down many job interviews as I didn’t knead them.”
Fozzie: “I heard you are afraid of web developers. Why is that?”
Gingerbread man: “That’s because they can disable all cookies.”
Fozzie. What happens if you injure you knee?”
Gingerbread man: “The doctor would only tell me to put icing on it. Then I would become dough-pressed.”
Fozzie: “What would you use if you broke your leg?”
Gingerbread man: “I would use candy canes.”
Fozzie: “How do you make your bed in the morning?”
Gingerbread man: “I use cookie sheets.”
Artist: Shane Pilster, collabration with TC Clayton
Shane Pilster is an artist, muralist, curator, graphic designer and web developer. Bridging his expertise in graffiti and urban arts with community involvement, he prides himself in also being an educator, advocate, mentor and well-rounded creative individual. Originally from the San Francisco Bay area, Shane has called Pittsburgh his home since 2004 and is a pioneer in bringing awareness and shining a spotlight on urban art and its artistry in ways never done before in the region.
Duke is short for Duquesne Beer. The Duquesne Brewing Company was a major brewery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from its founding in 1899 until its dissolution in 1972. The brand was revived under the name Duquesne Brewing Company in 2008, in order to re-establish the beer in Western Pennsylvania starting in the summer of 2010.
Blockheads was created and built by my brother, who has been a web developer for a decade. And now... It's live! So come check out Blockheads, and my account!
Hope to see you there!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Bridge
Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, England, over the River Thames. It is close to the Tower of London, which gives it its name.Name[›] It has become an iconic symbol of London.
The bridge consists of two towers which are tied together at the upper level by means of two horizontal walkways which are designed to withstand the horizontal forces exerted by the suspended sections of the bridge on the land-ward sides of the towers. The vertical component of the forces in the suspended sections and the vertical reactions of the two walkways are carried by the two robust towers. The bascule pivots and operating machinery are housed in the base of each tower. Its present colour dates from 1977 when it was painted red, white and blue for the Queen's Silver Jubilee. Originally it was painted a chocolate brown colour.[1]
Tower Bridge is sometimes mistakenly referred to as London Bridge, which is actually the next bridge upstream.[2] A popular urban legend is that in 1968, Robert McCulloch, the purchaser of the old London Bridge that was later shipped to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, believed that he was in fact buying Tower Bridge. This was denied by McCulloch himself and has been debunked by Ivan Luckin, the seller of the bridge.[3]
The nearest London Underground station is Tower Hill on the Circle and District Lines.
The nearest Docklands Light Railway station is Tower Gateway.
In the second half of the 19th century, increased commercial development in the East End of London led to a requirement for a new river crossing downstream of London Bridge. A traditional fixed bridge could not be built because it would cut off access to the port facilities in the Pool of London, between London Bridge and the Tower of London.
A Special Bridge or Subway Committee was formed in 1876, chaired by Sir Albert Joseph Altman, to find a solution to the river crossing problem. It opened the design of the crossing to public competition. Over 50 designs were submitted, including one from civil engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette. The evaluation of the designs was surrounded by controversy, and it was not until 1884 that a design submitted by Horace Jones, the City Architect (who was also one of the judges),[4] was approved.
Jones' engineer, Sir John Wolfe Barry, devised the idea of a bascule bridge with two towers built on piers. The central span was split into two equal bascules or leaves, which could be raised to allow river traffic to pass. The two side-spans were suspension bridges, with the suspension rods anchored both at the abutments and through rods contained within the bridge's upper walkways.
Construction started in 1886 and took eight years with five major contractors – Sir John Jackson (foundations), Baron Armstrong (hydraulics), William Webster, Sir H.H. Bartlett, and Sir William Arrol & Co.[5] – and employed 432 construction workers. E W Crutwell was the resident engineer for the construction.[6]
Two massive piers, containing over 70,000 tons of concrete,[4] were sunk into the riverbed to support the construction. Over 11,000 tons of steel provided the framework for the towers and walkways.[4] This was then clad in Cornish granite and Portland stone, both to protect the underlying steelwork and to give the bridge a pleasing appearance.
Jones died in 1887 and George D. Stevenson took over the project.[4] Stevenson replaced Jones' original brick facade with the more ornate Victorian Gothic style, which makes the bridge a distinctive landmark, and was intended to harmonise the bridge with the nearby Tower of London.[6] The total cost of construction was £1,184,000.[6]
The bridge was officially opened on 30 June 1894 by The Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII), and his wife, The Princess of Wales (Alexandra of Denmark).[7]
The bridge connected Iron Gate, on the north bank of the river, with Horsleydown Lane, on the south – now known as Tower Bridge Approach and Tower Bridge Road, respectively.[6] Until the bridge was opened, the Tower Subway – 400 m to the west – was the shortest way to cross the river from Tower Hill to Tooley Street in Southwark. Opened in 1870, Tower Subway was the world's first underground ('tube') railway, but closed after just three months and was re-opened as a pedestrian foot tunnel. Once Tower Bridge was open, the majority of foot traffic transferred to using the bridge, there being no toll to pay to use it. Having lost most of its income, the tunnel was closed in 1898.[8]
Tower Bridge is one of five London bridges now owned and maintained by the Bridge House Estates, a charitable trust overseen by the City of London Corporation. It is the only one of the Trust's bridges not to connect the City of London to the Southwark bank, the northern landfall is in Tower Hamlets.
The bridge is 800 feet (244 m) in length with two towers each 213 feet (65 m) high, built on piers. The central span of 200 feet (61 m) between the towers is split into two equal bascules or leaves, which can be raised to an angle of 83 degrees to allow river traffic to pass. The bascules, weighing over 1,000 tons each, are counterbalanced to minimize the force required and allow raising in five minutes.
The two side-spans are suspension bridges, each 270 feet (82 m) long, with the suspension rods anchored both at the abutments and through rods contained within the bridge's upper walkways. The pedestrian walkways are 143 feet (44 m) above the river at high tide.[6]
The original raising mechanism was powered by pressurised water stored in several hydraulic accumulators.Hydraulics[›][clarification needed]
The system was designed and installed by Sir W. G. Armstrong Mitchell & Company of Newcastle upon Tyne. Water, at a pressure of 750 psi, was pumped into the accumulators by two 360 hp stationary steam engines, each driving a force pump from its piston tail rod. The accumulators each comprise a 20-inch ram on which sits a very heavy weight to maintain the desired pressure.
In 1974, the original operating mechanism was largely replaced by a new electro-hydraulic drive system, designed by BHA Cromwell House. The only components of the original system still in use are the final pinions, which engage with the racks fitted to the bascules. These are driven by modern hydraulic motors and gearing, using oil rather than water as the hydraulic fluid.[9]
Some of the original hydraulic machinery has been retained, although it is no longer in use. It is open to the public and forms the basis for the bridge's museum, which resides in the old engine rooms on the south side of the bridge. The museum includes the steam engines, two of the accumulators and one of the hydraulic engines that moved the bascules, along with other related artefacts.
During World War II, as a precaution against the existing engines being damaged by enemy action, a third engine was installed in 1942:[10] a 150 hp horizontal cross-compound engine, built by Vickers Armstrong Ltd. at their Elswick works in Newcastle upon Tyne. It was fitted with a flywheel having a 9-foot diameter and weighing 9 tons, and was governed to a speed of 30 rpm.
The engine became redundant when the rest of the system was modernised in 1974, and was donated to the Forncett Industrial Steam Museum by the Corporation of the City of London.
To control the passage of river traffic through the bridge, a number of different rules and signals were employed. Daytime control was provided by red semaphore signals, mounted on small control cabins on either end of both bridge piers. At night, coloured lights were used, in either direction, on both piers: two red lights to show that the bridge was closed, and two green to show that it was open. In foggy weather, a gong was sounded as well.[6]
Vessels passing through the bridge had to display signals too: by day, a black ball at least 2 feet (0.61 m) in diameter was to be mounted high up where it could be seen; by night, two red lights in the same position. Foggy weather required repeated blasts from the ship's steam whistle.[6]
If a black ball was suspended from the middle of each walkway (or a red light at night) this indicated that the bridge could not be opened. These signals were repeated about 1,000 yards (910 m) downstream, at Cherry Garden Pier, where boats needing to pass through the bridge had to hoist their signals/lights and sound their horn, as appropriate, to alert the Bridge Master.[6]
Some of the control mechanism for the signalling equipment has been preserved and may be seen working in the bridge's museum.
Although the bridge is an undoubted landmark, professional commentators in the early 20th century were critical of its aesthetics. "It represents the vice of tawdriness and pretentiousness, and of falsification of the actual facts of the structure", wrote H. H. Statham,[11] while Frank Brangwyn stated that "A more absurd structure than the Tower Bridge was never thrown across a strategic river".[12]
Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank selected the bridge as one of his four choices for the 2002 BBC television documentary series Britain's Best Buildings.[13]
Tower Bridge is still a busy and vital crossing of the Thames: it is crossed by over 40,000 people (motorists and pedestrians) every day.[14] The bridge is on the London Inner Ring Road, and is on the eastern boundary of the London congestion charge zone. (Drivers do not incur a charge by crossing the bridge.)
In order to maintain the integrity of the historic structure, the City of London Corporation have imposed a 20 miles per hour (32 km/h) speed restriction, and an 18-tonne weight limit on vehicles using the bridge. A sophisticated camera system measures the speed of traffic crossing the bridge, utilising a number plate recognition system to send fixed penalty charges to speeding drivers.[citation needed]
A second system monitors other vehicle parameters. Induction loops and piezoelectric detectors are used to measure the weight, the height of the chassis above ground level, and the number of axles for each vehicle.[citation needed]
River traffic
The bascules are raised around 1000 times a year.[15] River traffic is now much reduced, but it still takes priority over road traffic. Today, 24 hours' notice is required before opening the bridge. In 2008, a local web developer created a Twitter feed to post live updates of the bridge's opening and closing activities.[16]
A computer system was installed in 2000 to control the raising and lowering of the bascules remotely. Unfortunately it proved less reliable than desired, resulting in the bridge being stuck in the open or closed positions on several occasions during 2005, until its sensors were replaced.[14]
The high-level walkways between the towers gained an unpleasant reputation as a haunt for prostitutes and pickpockets and were closed in 1910. In 1982 they were reopened as part of the Tower Bridge Exhibition, an exhibition now housed in the bridge's twin towers, the high-level walkways and the Victorian engine rooms. The walkways boast stunning views of the River Thames and many famous London sites, serving as viewing galleries for over 380,000 tourists[citation needed] who visit each year. The exhibition also uses films, photos and interactives to explain why and how Tower Bridge was built. Visitors can access the original steam engines that once powered the bridge bascules, housed in a building close to the south end of the bridge.
In April 2008 it was announced that the bridge will undergo a 'facelift' costing £4m, and taking four years to complete. The work entails stripping off the existing paint and repainting in blue and white. Each section will be enshrouded in scaffolding to prevent the old paint from falling into the Thames and causing pollution. Starting in mid-2008, contractors will work on a quarter of the bridge at a time to minimise disruption, but some road closures are inevitable. The bridge will remain open until the end of 2010, but is then expected to be closed for several months. It is hoped that the completed work will stand for 25 years.[17]
The walkway section of the renovation was completed in mid 2009. Within the walkways a versatile new lighting system has been installed, designed by Eleni Shiarlis, for when the walkways are in use for exhibitions or functions. The new system provides for both feature and atmospheric lighting, the latter using bespoke RGB LED luminares, designed to be concealed within the bridge superstructure and fixed without the need for drilling (these requirements as a result of the bridge's Grade I status).[18]
In December 1952, the bridge opened while a number 78 double-decker bus (stock number RT 793) was on it. At that time, the gateman would ring a warning bell and close the gates when the bridge was clear before the watchman ordered the lift. The process failed while a relief watchman was on duty. The bus was near the edge of the south bascule when it started to rise; driver Albert Gunter made a split-second decision to accelerate the bus, clearing a three-foot drop on to the north bascule, which had not started to rise. There were no serious injuries.[19]
Main article: Hawker Hunter Tower Bridge incident
On 5 April 1968 a Hawker Hunter FGA.9 jet fighter from No.1 Squadron RAF, flown by Flt Lt Alan Pollock, flew under Tower Bridge. Unimpressed that senior staff were not going to celebrate the RAF's 50th birthday with a fly-past, Pollock decided to do something himself. Without authorisation, Pollock flew the Hunter at low level down the Thames, past the Houses of Parliament, and continued on to Tower Bridge. He flew the Hunter beneath the bridge's walkway, remarking afterwards it was an afterthought when he saw the bridge looming ahead of him. Pollock was placed under arrest upon landing, and discharged from the RAF on medical grounds without the chance to defend himself at a court martial.[20][21]
In May 1997,[22] the motorcade of United States President Bill Clinton was divided by the opening of the bridge. Thames sailing barge Gladys, on her way to a gathering at St Katharine Docks, arrived on schedule and the bridge was duly opened for her. Returning from a Thames-side lunch at Le Pont de la Tour restaurant, with UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Clinton was less punctual, and arrived just as the bridge was rising. The bridge opening split the motorcade in two, much to the consternation of security staff. A spokesman for Tower Bridge is quoted as saying, "We tried to contact the American Embassy, but they wouldn't answer the 'phone."[23]
On 19 August 1999, Jef Smith, a Freeman of the City of London, drove a "herd" of two sheep across the bridge. He was exercising an ancient permission, granted as a right to Freemen, to make a point about the powers of older citizens and the way in which their rights were being eroded.[24] However, this was a hollow gesture as the so-called right is to drive sheep across London Bridge into the City of London, and Tower Bridge does not have its northern landfall in the City.[citation needed]
Before dawn on 31 October 2003, David Crick, a Fathers 4 Justice campaigner, climbed a 120 ft (37 m) tower crane near Tower Bridge at the start of a six-day protest dressed as Spider-Man.[25] Fearing for his safety, and that of motorists should he fall, police cordoned off the area, closing the bridge and surrounding roads and causing widespread traffic congestion across the City and east London. The Metropolitan Police were later criticised for maintaining the closure for five days when this was not strictly necessary in the eyes of some citizens.[26][27]
On May 11, 2009, six persons were trapped and injured after a lift fell 10 ft inside the north tower.[28][29]
Got this shot this morning before work, life is going so fast for me now days, been up for sunrise many times lately but didn’t get the sky that I wanted finally they put up show, this morning.
And of course about Flickr facelift,
Please don’t complain, they are bunch of professional web developers and site designers who are working for yahoo, are behind this process and they know what they are doing, changes in companies like this its never a failure, the majority of us don’t like it be cause we don’t like change, give it time you will love it more than before, just like Facebook heh.
Composite of 4 different photographs. The clouds are from an airplane. The Hollywood Sign is from Griffith Park. The people walking was taken at El Matador Beach, Malibu. The mountain is Mount Baker as seen from Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.
Downtown Los Angeles. Across the street from The Broad. Warhol, Jeff Koons, Chuck Close. Next door to the Walt Disney Concert Hall & The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion & Abrahamson Theatre with the San Gabriel Mountains in the background.
This picture is #64 in the 100 Strangers Project - Round 2
Meet Kevin.
I met Kevin strolling casually along the streets of Bethesda with his companion Lucy. Turns out they were there to watch a movie 'Shape of Water". Undoubtedly that handsome beard would grab anybody's attention and I was no different. Kevin's towering personality was a wonderful stranger opportunity and I quickly made my request. What immediately stuck me was despite the imposing personality and rather intimidating look how friendly Kevin was. A soft spoken man, he was almost Zen like in his tone. Given the dull grey skies and fast fading light we quickly shot a few frames - though I admittedly rushed through the shots and didn't do justice to the potential.
Kevin is a web developer - working with open source software. He enjoys the outdoors - including long relaxed strolls. He has many a memories he remembers fondly but didn't have one particular one that he wanted to share in the moment. One quality that he loves about himself - his honesty. And if there is one thing he would change if he could - is how people treat each other. Great words Kevin.
Thanks a lot Kevin for being a part of the project. Great meeting you and Lucy, ad wish you both all the very best.
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
For my other pictures on this project: 100 Strangers - Round 2.
For pictures from my prior attempt at 100 Strangers: 100 Strangers - Round 1.
Basics of reduced functionality:
Infinite zooming windows fill all available bandwidth. I used to browse 5 peoples' favorites all at once - i always open the favorites of anyone who favorites any of my photos. If you do that now, each window takes up 10X more bandwidth, because they are a bunch of hi-res pics instead of thumbnails.
Previously i could click the next 2 pages of someone's favorites (next 6 if it's page 1), and have it preloaded in another tab. Basically, I had an unending, uninterrupted stream of images to my eyes. Which is THE POINT of a photo site.
If something was interesting, I would click on it.
Now? Nope, no preview. You have to load the full size of everything. And if you want to preload the next page, you have to go to the bottom of the page to click that. Except you can't, because ajax requests will fill the page up with new full-size-bandwidth-sucking images.
Nevermind that when you finally get to the bottom of page 1, it always says you are on page 2.
The net result is - by the time i cycle through to a tab, maybe 5 or 10 more images have loaded.
More intensive means harder. Doesn't matter if someone is 56kbps or 100Mbps. Using more bandwidth than you want to use is always a bad thing. My bandwidth is often tight due to use patterns here.
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That's just one of many examples.
How about the crowded page? If I'm in another application, and click back to chrome (because I left a favorites page in mid-load, becuase it takes forever), I need to scroll. Previously I could click on the whitespace to change my focus. Now I need to be extra careful and only click on the scrollbar, or on the TINY TINy whitespace between pictures. Smaller click targets are harder by definition.
And the penalty for missing? You have to re-load the HUGE UNENDING PAGE again. And if you were near the bottom? It might take 5 minutes to load the pictures to get back to where you were. Back button is no longer sufficient like in the past.
Same thing if you accidentally close a tab. You can re-open it ("undo tab close") ... But your connection will be servered, and you generally won't be able to scroll down any further. So if you want to pick up where you've left off, you have to reload all the huge, full-size, neverending pictures up to the point where you were. Which will always, always take more time and bandwidth than with the old flickr.
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I have meaningful titles and captions written for all my photos. When you went to my page, you would see them. That was part of what I was building every day for 8 years.
Now? You don't see them. The curative info I worked hard to create is now buried past a click.
Same thing with privacy settings. Previously you could see which pictures were public/private by the color next to it. But they removed those summaries. If I want to go change the status, I first have to get to the picture on the neverending hi-res large-bandwidth page (which itself can be a problem if it's 300 down), and click into it... Just to find out something I could find out before.
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Same thing with views. I would look at my first few pages and see the view counts. Now I can't do that. Unless I click into every damn image.
Do I need to explain the concept that having more user interactions to get to user information is a bad thing? I'm a web developer myself, and even with my 10 years experience, I know better.
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Same thing with when a photo was uploaded. When going through someone's photostream, I often only want to go back to see their most recent (say, 2 months) images. So I would browse back until I saw a date of 2 months ago. Except now that date is buried. There's no way to know. Yay for hiding photo information from a photo view on a photo viewing website!
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They took away browser zoom when viewing individual photos. Previously I would use browser zoom to zoom into the picture. Sometimes I want it 50% larger than my screen to look at a detail. This applies to preview resolution AND full resolution.
Now they override that, removing a basic browser functionality, and making it harder to control the size of the image I'm viewing. On an image viewing website. Genius.
Ironically, they still allow browser zoom during the neverending-highres vomit view... And that's the one place you DON'T want it, because you're suddenly resizing 400 images at once, throwing yourself onto a totally different part of the page. THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF HOW IT SHOULD BE ON BOTH COUNTS!
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Now I'm going to grab some popcorn a wait for the inevitable No True Scotsman and Ad Hominem responses.
This photoshopped Sports Illustrated cover of Brett Favre in a Vikings Uniform was created by Cory Hollenhorst, a web developer at Meta 13. Also read Brett Favre Saga In Search - Vikings Uniform Photo Drives Traffic.