Flickr without the Flash
Simon Willison,
Apr 11, 2005
Description and link to Lickr, a Flash-free alternative to the online photo sharing site, Flickr. Lickr is a site that speaks to me - I complained to Flickr about their Flash interface shortly after their launch. They stayed with Flash, their site was a hit, and they became rich and famous. I'm happy for them, but I still want a Flash-free interface. But as the authors of Lickr take pains to point out, "This is a hack that works in just one browser, Firefox. Developing cross-platform DHTML is much harder and more painful." Quite right. So what's important about this site? Readers should note the use of Ajax, a Javascript technology that manages web-based applications (note the next item).
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