I just installed Silverlight on my Mac running Firefox and it works OK,
extremely zoomy, in fact.
Phil Blume
2009/6/26 Joseph Padfield <[log in to unmask]>
> 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
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>>> Behalf Of Jenny Walklate
>>>> Sent: 26 June 2009 09:25
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Subject: Re: Launch of Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery's
>>>> Pre-Rapahelite website
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I wondered about silverlight too - is there anything
>>>> with Linux/ Firefox compatibility?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers!
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