Expose Flash Gallery
    Almost, but no cigar, December 27, 2006 |
This gallery looks great and works well, with a clean, smooth user interface. It worked consistently on IE, Firefox and Safari, running smoothly even on a seven-year old iMac. But I was up against two problems:
- No multilingual support. There is a centralized "strings.xml" file that allows easy translation, but if I understood the discussions in the support forum correctly, you cannot switch languages dynamically, let alone use JoomFish to translate.
- In IE7, the gallery rendered in front of my drop-down menus, even though the mosLoadModules for the menus come later in index.php. I'm using swMenuFree, but I suspect it might happen with other drop-down menu extensions.
I also had some access-rights issues in the back end, but those appear to be fairly common, with lots of suggested fixes.
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