Hi Michael,
You didn't email me. You posted a comment on the blog which I replied to.
As I said in the reply you haven't read:
The gallery resolves perfectly for me in Opera 9.51 (and did so in an older version of 9). If you are using older versions which ignore the css overflow property, there's nothing I can do.
I test all the galleries in Safari, Firefox, Camino, Opera and IE under Boot Camp. Opera accounted for 1.2% of traffic to Lightroom-Blog.com last month compared to 36.4 for IE, 29.8 for Firefox and 7.8% for Safari. The news reader NetNewsWire was 4.2% and I don't exactly check for that. In fact NewsGator and NewFire are higher than Opera. If a site resolves reasonably well in IE and Firefox, great. Safari should be okay as I see it in Lightroom Mac. Beyond that it's impossible to keep track of.
I have a test gallery with 4 images and 20 virtual copies, it resolves with no issues. You'll need to give more detail if we're to resolve it from your end. Does it work with Preview in Browser?
For filler images, create a blank image, the same colour as the image area background colour. Or when you export, delete the references to those filler images in the appropriate exported gallery.html file. Much quicker to delete code than to insert it.
As to individual image numbers in each gallery: It would be quite a lot of work to do and even more work to explain to the user what to do.
Even the current setup with the first incarnation HSWeb confused people.
Having to enter number of images for each gallery page, and then sorting to that in one collection would certainly make the gallery much less useful and usable.
I thought in detail about this before I even took the current method and on the surface is looks okay..
gallery1=1 to g1total
gallery2=g1total+1 to g2total etc...
What happens when someone leaves out gallery3 and uses gallery4? Where do the image counts come from? That's an awful lot of <% if $model.nonCSS.gallery3 do %>currenttotal=g1total+g2total etc...
to resolve the correct totals.
There is another way which I considered halfway up a mountain (as we call our hills here). Have single galleries to drop in to replace the gallery.html pages. And this will be the plan of attack when the next version has been released.
Hopefully you can see that it's not willy nilly and that a fair bit of thought goes in (along with a lot of hair pulling bending Lua around).
