next thing to work on would be to make it so it will actually rotate them further than 90 degrees based upon the distance traveled by the mouse.
if that's possible of course.

That's not a common use case so I think it'd only lead to more accidents.

FYI, this will be used as another way to let people rotate their pictures in Fotobilder/Scrapbook. A surprising number of modern digital cameras (an uh, all analog cameras) don't have orientation sensors.

I was just having to rotate a couple hundred pictures for a friend who sent me a photo CD without EXIF data and got a little annoyed. :-)

not a common use case? very true.

new fb rotating stuff? awesome. the current interface with the buttons works but this would be quicker for the user.

and yeah, that would have taken quite some time. always good to figure out new ways to make the computer do the work for you.
unfortunately, the person has to come up with what the computer has to do first. XD

Awesome. I love it when software is designed around how things should work rather than around how things are typically done.

Heh. It was anilnaik wasn't it :)

What's wrong with rotation buttons?

Nothing. We'll have rotation buttons.

I noticed that too. Let's call it an easter egg bonus feature.

I only have Safari 1.3.1 (v312.3.1) at home, where it seems fine. So I assume you're talking about Safari 2?

Alternatively, you can cheat and make them dance even when they aren't straight (and thus make them dance fast easier, too).

There will still be rotation buttons. This is just another way.

you're pretty cool, brad