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MORE DOTS!
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Stored in: Flickr News
Posted On: November 04 2006
By: Bryan Partington
Archival Photo
It used to be that flickr was a land of dots.
Dots here, dots there .. dots EVERYWHERE!
So it pleases me that after a very long dry spell, the dots are making a comeback.
You see, at the genesis of flickr much of the interface was built in flash. The "flickr live" interface and organizer were both flash based, and every photo in the web interface was cloaked in a flash wrapper that enabled the 'notes' functionality. The mutually orbitting, animated, pink and blue dots would pop up on the vast majority of flickr pages whenever a photo was being downloaded to the browser for viewing.
Then flickr live was dropped and photo pages and Organizr converted to AJAX interfaces. The dots, once so delightfully ubiquitous, all but vanished from the flickrscape.
Recently, flickr updated their 'favicon' from a blue "f" to a couple of cute, blue and pink dots. This means that in the corner of every flickr tab in firefox, I get a solid dose of my dotty friends. The new geotagging interface features dots heavily, both pink and blue, which makes me very happy each and every time I mark a photo on the map. Organizr retains the dots in their original, animated state.
Design wise, the dots unify a unassuming interface with very few colour cues. They are points of reference in a sea of white, and they make people happy.
They assure us, in no uncertain terms, that flickr retains its world leading position in dot production.
That, and they're fodder for some pretty hilarious video:
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