Joe,
I've been looking at the zooming images on the site we are discuss, in
Silverlight, on Safari 4 on a Mac. And it works in IE, Firefox and
Safari, so it's not a IE/Win only technology - or not for quite some
time now.
Regards,
Cristiano
On 26 Jun 2009, at 12:41, Joseph Padfield wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have had a brief look at the site and it looks very good, but I
> have not had a chance to examine it further.
>
> I just wanted to post a comment about the silverlight zooming
> issue. I have seen it working on a windows machine and it looks
> good, but lack of support for other browsers is a shame.
>
> For web technology people, (not general users) Firefox use is about
> 47% (and climbing)
> http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
>
> Wikipedia (much more general user: has lower Firefox use ~22.51%,
> but still very significant (IE only 65.5%)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
>
> Would it be possible to have an alternative zooming system presented
> for non Internet Explorer browsers ?
>
> Also, just for fun, I thought I would mention that there is (and
> there are probably several others :-) a cross platform, open source,
> alternative zooming system , called IIPImage, http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/
>
> I am currently using it for several research projects. One example
> javascript viewer, (though it is not yet using the newest version of
> the viewer, so not as smooth), can be found: http://cima.ng-london.org.uk/collection
> This is a simple proof of concept page but it works as a good
> example.
>
> Joe
>
>
> Cristiano Bianchi | Keepthinking wrote:
>> Michael,
>>
>> my 8-year old Alfa Romeo takes me everywhere I like (and quite
>> comfortably at that), but if I wanted to compete at Silverstone I'd
>> need a different car. And I know it.
>>
>> I agree that Silverlight is an odd choice - for a simple zoom
>> facility - but hey, they may have something else in store, for
>> which Flash is not appropriate. We do not know. Yet. They have made
>> a decision and will know its pros and cons.
>>
>> What we do know is that on an average site the number of people
>> coming with Ubuntu (or any other Linux) are, say, 0.0001% of the
>> total. They made a conscious decision of using a niche OS - which
>> has limited multimedia capabilities and a very restricted choice of
>> plugins. So the idea is that the remaining 99.9999% of user should
>> never try something else because of the choice of a very small group?
>>
>> Moreover, the site is 99.9% accessible to everyone - if you want
>> the extra funky bits you have to download something extra. And at
>> doing that - the continuous zoom - I have seen no better tool than
>> Silverlight - it's smooth, fast and efficient. I have seen no
>> comparable Flash example at doing the same. Zoomify or Aleo don't
>> come even remotely close. I would like to be corrected as we are
>> looking for an alternative :-)
>>
>> Best, Cristiano
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 26 Jun 2009, at 11:18, Michael Comiskey wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All
>>>
>>> I just tried the preraphaelites.org website with an Asus Eee 900
>>> with
>>> eeebuntu 3.0 (a tweak of Ubuntu Linux 9.04) using Firefox 3.0.11.
>>>
>>> It works just the same as Firefox on Windows XP SP3 and Firefox 3.0
>>> until one tries to use the zooming viewer.
>>>
>>> The viewer page does not work , but instead presents a "Get
>>> Microsoft
>>> Silverlight" button, which upon being selected, sends one to the
>>> Microsoft Silverlight website.
>>>
>>> This then gives a "Microsoft Silverlight may not be supported on
>>> your
>>> computer's hardware or operating system" message, which is nice.
>>>
>>> Thus I would give the site full marks for presenting what is a
>>> marvellous collection, but take a bit off for not using a cross
>>> platform
>>> technology for the zooming viewer.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
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>>>> Yes, I wondered about silverlight too - is there anything
>>>> with Linux/ Firefox compatibility?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers!
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