[gosu]

This looks fantastic. Watching people's reactions in that example image was really interesting, and it occupied me for a good few minutes. "Why can't you do the same thing with video?" Because rewinding video is really painful, especially online video.

Criticism:

I use my thinkpad's pointer stick to move the mouse cursor. It's impossible to keep the cursor inside the "control strip" while moving it up and down and also looking away from the strip (and at the image). Too much accidental x motion is introduced.

It would be better for me if you were to enable the scroll wheel (which I can simulate on my pointer) as an alternative time control, or perhaps let me click on the control strip and then hold down mouse1 for as long as I want my y motion to control the position in time.

[jpap]

@gosu, despite what Josh wrote, you can traverse your pointer across any part of the living photo online. :-)

Love that you picked up on the expressions! It wasn't until I got the photos out of the app was I fascinated by the same thing. I really can't wait to enable this functionality for everyone soon. :-)

More elaborate mouse movements are possible, only in HTML5 full screen mode; required to "capture" the mouse (think a game).

The problem with that, too, is that instruction or a tutorial is required. (I'd try to make things as intuitive as possible, despite the failure in the other thread RE UX and the infinite shutter.)

[gosu]

facepalm

What was happening is that I was trying to keep the mouse in the control strip, and it would go off the right side of the image.

Thanks a lot, Josh.

Edit: By the way, the fullscreen functionality isn't launching. But I do have a weird browser (conkeror on xulrunner 22.0).