Carousel Free

One of the nice things about working on groupr in the first few weeks was getting involved in the object model and the underlying code, but there were a couple of hooks I left deliberately so that I could add some whizzy client-side effects later. One was the fact that the call to get the photos in a group pool had a couple of optional parameters; the number of images to fetch and the page number.

With the latest revision of groupr, which is now live, that's actually been made accessible to users. If there's more than nine images per group, you'll be able to page back and forwards through them. If you're not a member of many groups this probably makes the app vaguely interesting to you. If not, maybe you'll like the fade effect, for which I have to thank Gareth, for suggesting it, and jQuery, for making it easy.

Annoyingly, though, I've just realised that I can't use Flickr's group IDs as CSS IDs. @ is not a permitted character. (This is probably because it's used in the selector syntax; something I should have realised when jQuery was failing to select items based on ID. I ended up using an XPath selector instead, but that's not really such a useful discovery now.) Oh well, nothing like a big HTML refactor to get stuck into, is there?