I wrote a flash gallery front-end a week or so back. There’s a picture of it above.

Just kidding, it’s an actual instance! Some of the thumbnails might take a while to load. That is because they are not thumbnails but giant, giant images.

It uses ExternalInterface and Javascript to display the descriptions in the HTML. I’ll post the relevant code with an explanation next time, but let me tell you right now – having more than one gallery per page doesn’t pose a problem ( programmatically ).

The gallery is described by XML, and added to a page with a simple Javascript call.