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Firstly, I'm loving http://caption-of-the-day.com/ http://caption-of-the-day.com/ - but it appears to be broken. "Click to View" only activates the top post (in

Firstly, I'm loving http://caption-of-the-day.com/ http://caption-of-the-day.com/ - but it appears to be broken. "Click to View" only activates the top post (in Firefox 9 at least). Will be adding you to my list of sites to visit regularly though... Secondly, whilst watermarking works for funny pictures, or people who solely sell artwork, it isn't something I would class as a solution. For people who mainly want to share their work, but simply don't want it ripped off, it's ruining the original artwork. Watermarks are ugly. Also, the OP says he's not concerned with distribution...

DanielBMarkham 15y ago
Thanks! I read his concerns about distribution a different way. If you give your photo away for “credit” then the best possible scenario for you is someone will see your photo, contact you, and ask if they could borrow one of your photos… for credit. Try this… next time you’re at dinner, tell your waiter you’ll tell all your friends how good the service was if he gives you dinner for free. It occurs to me that as much as I hate DRM, I'm actually making a "DRM-light" argument. I think it's possible to have a file format in which the artist "signs" his work, perhaps along with whomever he sold it to -- a secure provenance chain. The payment provider would perform this service as part of the digital transfer. That way you could distribute anything you want, however you want. The value would be in the distribution chain. I'm a hobby photographer and professional programmer and author. Believe me, I know the pain this guy is experiencing. But the simple fact is bits are worthless. The photos of Ansel Adams aren't worth nearly as much anymore. But the provenance of a piece of work, being able to show that it came directly from the artist, perhaps with a personalized message on the back? That's priceless. The economy just isn't based on physical goods as much as it used to be. (BTW, "click to view" is supposed to slide out a section where I provide my own snarky comments. That way if I decide to use one of the images in a presentation some day I've already got a few jokes lined up. Works on FF 8.0 in Ubuntu for me, but I'll look into it.)
- dazbradbury 15y ago
  "click to view" is supposed to slide out a section where I provide my own snarky comments On your home page, go to the second post, and click... You're javascript only slides things with the id sampleOuter. As you have multiple entries with the id sampleOuter on your homepage, most browsers will pick the first. If you're intent is to slide open ALL of them, I'd use a class, rather than an ID. If you're intent is to just slide open the one that's clicked on, you need each "sampleOuter" to have a unique identifier you can select it on. You can then pass that to your "toggleSampleView" method. HTH.

DanielBMarkham 15y ago

Thanks! I read his concerns about distribution a different way. If you give your photo away for “credit” then the best possible scenario for you is someone will see your photo, contact you, and ask if they could borrow one of your photos… for credit. Try this… next time you’re at dinner, tell your waiter you’ll tell all your friends how good the service was if he gives you dinner for free. It occurs to me that as much as I hate DRM, I'm actually making a "DRM-light" argument. I think it's possible to have a file format in which the artist "signs" his work, perhaps along with whomever he sold it to -- a secure provenance chain. The payment provider would perform this service as part of the digital transfer. That way you could distribute anything you want, however you want. The value would be in the distribution chain. I'm a hobby photographer and professional programmer and author. Believe me, I know the pain this guy is experiencing. But the simple fact is bits are worthless. The photos of Ansel Adams aren't worth nearly as much anymore. But the provenance of a piece of work, being able to show that it came directly from the artist, perhaps with a personalized message on the back? That's priceless. The economy just isn't based on physical goods as much as it used to be. (BTW, "click to view" is supposed to slide out a section where I provide my own snarky comments. That way if I decide to use one of the images in a presentation some day I've already got a few jokes lined up. Works on FF 8.0 in Ubuntu for me, but I'll look into it.)

dazbradbury 15y ago
"click to view" is supposed to slide out a section where I provide my own snarky comments On your home page, go to the second post, and click... You're javascript only slides things with the id sampleOuter. As you have multiple entries with the id sampleOuter on your homepage, most browsers will pick the first. If you're intent is to slide open ALL of them, I'd use a class, rather than an ID. If you're intent is to just slide open the one that's clicked on, you need each "sampleOuter" to have a unique identifier you can select it on. You can then pass that to your "toggleSampleView" method. HTH.