New Delhi: Continuing with its tweaks to the Facebook user interface Facebook has rolled out its new photo viewer to more users. The latest change in the Facebook photo viewer seems to be inspired by that in Google+. Quite like the Google+ photo viewer the interaction panel is to the right, instead of its previous position below the image.
This update to the Facebook photo viewer comes a year after the last major overhaul in February last year when Facebook introduced a light-box like effect to its photo viewer and also made viewing and sharing easier.
Last year's upgrade was necessitated because the code used was obsolete and also for the need to support high resolution images. This time around it seems to have more to do with enhancing the user experience.
The notable change in the new Facebook photo viewer is that users no longer need to scroll down to comment on the photo. Comments (and ads) have been pushed to a right panel next to the photo. The new viewer also lets users see larger images. The image size displayed depends both on the dimensions of the original image and the resolution of the user's computer screen.
Quite like the old Facebook photo viewer users can move out of the theatre interface to the original way of viewing photos by simply reloading the page.
The option to download a particular image (or to report the image) has been moved to underneath the gear icon on the top right of the viewing window.
According to Facebook's IPO filing 250 million images are uploaded to Facebook by users every day.
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