Picasa Web Albums, without Javascript

Like many modern websites, Picasa Web Albums makes extensive use of Javascript.

However, if you dont have Javascript enabled, the Web Albums are still usable, though with slightly different behaviour.

• The pages display a banner across the top which warns you "Your browser does not support JavaScript. Many features are unlikely to work without JavaScript enabled, but you're welcome to look around."
• There are no missing feature apparent on the Public Gallery page, and you can still get into individual albums.
• On the album page, the album shows the album image over to the left of the page as normal, but no other thumbnail images are shown. The selector for each of the 3 thumbnail sizes causes the page to reload, but still no images are shown.
• The slideshow button still takes you to the slideshow - but nothing appears to be happening. However, the page then reloads a few seconds later, to a manual slideshow view, rather than an automatic one.
• This view has a "1 of x" counter above the image displayed, together with forward and back arrow buttons as appropriate.
• On the right of the image are links to
  
  • "View largest photo" which causes the browser to show just the jpeg image in a new window, at its full size.
  • "Download largest photo" which goes to the same image, but served in such a way that most browsers will prompt you to save the file to disk rather than display it.
  • "Javascript version" which switches back to the Javascript version (useful if you have reached the non javascript page because someone emailed you a link)

All in all, this is quite a usable subset of the features (though why no thumbnails are given for the album view I dont know - basic album views have existed for years without the need for Javascript). In fact, the non Javascript slideshow view may even have advantages over the normal one, in that it makes it easier to view the full sized images direct in the browser.