I don’t often take the time to post something about a piece of code I figured out or things more technical, but I frequently rely on other’s blogs, websites, tutorials for random pieces of whatever puzzle I’m working on.
Anyway, the other week I was charged with putting up a slideshow using images from a specific flickr feed. The Google AJAX Feed API is perfect for this. No flash, no plugins.
The problem is in the gfslideshow.js file they provide you will only display square thumbnails of your photos, and if you scale them up, they become hopelessly pixelated. It took me a while, but the solution is simple. Open gfslideshow.js in a text editor and go down to line 48 then simply replace “thumbnail” with “content.” (or download this one) Also, be sure only to use the RSS2 feed from flickr as the Atom feed will not work with this.
That’s it! your slideshow should now show larger images.
