Cool Picture Change

I like this simple idea of changing pictures very quickly without any refresh and almost instant due to the small picture size. Click on any of the numbers and very quickly you see the whole gallery of photos disappear and reappear with new ones.

The main thing I like about it is the desktop feel you get when you click. Its almost like an instant change with no wait. I know lots of sites implement this but popular ones like Flickr still don't do it. It would be good if the small preview of the next and previous items (highlighted below) could be done using javascript so that no refresh would be necessary to view say a photo 2-3 photos down.


Even more advanced stuff like only loading comments if a user wanted them...via AJAX of course...would also be quite cool. The fewer page refreshes that you need the more responsive the UI will feel and the greater the usability of the site will become.