Code.Google.com/p/galleria - A Better Image Gallery

Image technology has come a long way since black and white photos first appeared. Even the advent of polaroids has been trumped by digital photography, editing tools and the internet. You can add Galleria to the list of new image tools available. It’s a Google plugin that allows you to create an image gallery with thumbnails. The beauty ofGalleria is that you don’t have to wait for images to load when you’re browsing an image gallery.Galleria is written in javascript. It works by loading images one at a time from an unordered list. Once loaded, a thumbnail of the image is loaded. This makes image viewing a lot quicker than what we’re used to because the loaded images are available for immediate viewing. Using CSS, thumbnails can be scaled or unscaled, centered and cropped inside a fixed thumbnail box. Add captions, custom thumbnails, or your own style gallery. Images don’t have to be the same size either.

“Galleria is a javascript image gallery written in jQuery. It loads the images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded. It will create thumbnails for you if you choose so, scaled or unscaled, centered and cropped inside a fixed thumbnail box defined by CSS.

The core of Galleria lies in it’s smart preloading behaviour, snappiness and the fresh absence of obtrusive design elements. Use it as a foundation for your custom styled image gallery.”

Galleria is a new, innovative way to present your images. It’s an extremely flexible application and cuts down on the loading time in usual image galleries.

Will users unfamiliar with code want to use Galleria? Will they be able to figure it out? Will coders like what Galleria does?