Location lookup from image

[tokee]

When an image is clicked, the URL changes to http://example.com/pixplot/#imagename. Judging from how the cluster-links works, it seems doable to make it work the other way around, so that changing the URL would make the view jump to the corresponding image.

This feature would allow for bookmarking and act as a building block for an image searcher by making it easy to see the found image in context.

[duhaime]

@tokee This is a great idea, thanks for sending it. I just pushed fly-on-hash-change to implement this behavior. If you have a second could you please give that a try and let me know if it fits the bill? If so I'll merge it and close this issue out; if not I'm happy to iterate...

[pleonard212]

This seems to work; some side effects are:

1. Safari on Mac goes into a pseudo-loading state (partial blue loading bar.)

Doesn't seem to affect anything but perhaps Safari thinks we're going to a new thing that never quite fully loads? Chrome does not do this...

2. Not a new issue, but clicking on left-hand cluster does not change URL

3. Do we need to persist this URL-based zooming after loading screen? Think currently the hash doesn't zoom you if you haven't loaded the website yet.

[duhaime]

Ah, yes, we probably should check for a hash on page load and fly to the requested image (per #3). Adding the hash to the url to satisfy #2 should be straightforward. #1 is curious. I'm going to hunt around a bit for more information on why the progress bar is displayed...

[tokee]

@duhaime Thanks for implementing on this! It works fine (firefox/Ubuntu) for changing the URL when the page is loaded. But as you note above it has no affect on first visit, so bookmarking is not possible.