The aim of BINS is to generate static HTML photo albums. Some of the
functionalities of BINS are:
* album can contains other albums (sub albums): tree structure
* generation of a thumbnail and of scaled images for each picture
* generated album appearance is fully customizable by using HTML
templates and configuration parameters
* several description fields (date, location, etc...) can be
associated with the pictures (in text or HTML format)
* Exif information and Digital camera support:
o use the EXIF data structure found on some image files (usually,
those produced by digital cameras) to fill automatically some fields
(date and time for example).
o BINS use the Orientation EXIF tag (which is normally set when you
rotate a image on you DigiCam) to rotate the picture to correct
orientation.
o For each image, a page provides all information available on the
picture and the DigiCam settings when the photo was taken.
o All EXIF information is saved in the XML description file,
preventing they disappear when the image is modified
* customizable charset encoding for HTML generation, including UTF-8
(Unicode) support by default. Generation of the Apache .htaccess file
for correct encoding charset in HTTP headers
* generate valid HTML 4 code.