started working on a new photo gallery - AGAIN...

This is like the 5th time I've started building an online photo album app from the ground up. The main reason I began it in the first place was so that I could have total control over the feature set. Problem is, I'm not even happy with what I do myself so I keep knocking it down and starting again.

oh well...

This time round I'm considdering the following features

• transparent content syndication between album sites
• XSL skins (as always) -- and lots of them...
• album heirachies (as always)
  
• comprehensive and granualar access control and security
• user group heirachies
• preview before publish mode
  
• clever caching (to protect RDBMS)
• optimisation for a clustered configuration
• unlimited photo size options (std thumbs/sizes + custom)
• favourites
• integrated threaded discusion on albums and album object using linkable threads
• polling
• skin upload
  
• batch file upload
• batch image rotation
• image cropping
• exif info extraction (as always)
• user-customisable metadata items (fields)
• Full XML support (for export etc)
• custom module API (down the track)
  

I'm toying around with using the name InterAlbum to denote it's distributed nature.