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Timeline scroll helper when browsing photos
It would be helpful to scroll back to a particular month/year when trying to use the main scroll bar. This could incorporate a histogram of number of photos taken each month. It might display when you hover over the right-hand area of the screen or when you start dragging. Need to also consider how it would display on touch devices that don't have hover events.
- [x] Sections of photos to jump to
- [x] Histogram display next to scrollbar with clickable bar per section
- [ ] DOM sizing based on known sections and images within
- [ ] Scroll spying to populate and unknown sections that are close to the viewport
See the scrubbable photos section of https://medium.com/google-design/google-photos-45b714dfbed1
I hadn't seen that article from the google photos front end dev. really cool read! This seems pretty old, but curious if this is what you're going for? i also saw the issue regarding Flickr open sourcing their justified algorithm. I'm sure you're busy and this isn't an issue to actually be solved, but curious what your thoughts are on direction there and if making the interface more google photos-esque is where you're heading?
Hi @cnelson-pdx. There is a lot I want to do to make the timeline more useful. This is a rough order of priorities for timeline:
- Scrollbar showing month/date overlay so you can quickly get to a point in time
- Smart loading of thumbnails around current viewport and freeing memory
- Option for turning on justified layout like Flickr
Aside from thumbnails there is a lot more to do to refine the UI. You will see some of this in the next couple of weeks. I don't aim to specifically like Google photos but there will an emphasis on search other UX patterns that we like.