It's not a firewall problem for me, it's having no admin rights to my
machine. I'll have to put in a request to IT if I want to see zooming.
Otherwise a lovely and interesting site. I don't know much about this
period so I'm looking forward to have a longer browse at home.
Cheers.
Jason
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Rachel Cockett
Sent: 26 June 2009 12:05
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Subject: Re: Launch of Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery's Pre-Rapahelite
website
Hi all,
I'm obviously biased of course!
But behind this local authority firewall we have been able to install
Silverlight.
Regards,
Rachel
Rachel S Cockett
Documentation Manager - Collection Management Birmingham Museum and Art
Gallery, B3 3DH
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VISIT OUR NEW WEBSITE www.preraphaelites.org
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Hi all
Well, I just tried the pic zoom function and though I too had to install
Silverlight, I am finding the zoomy bits working really nicely. One
wonders if users behind educational or local authority firewalls will be
able to install Silverlight? It's MS, of course, so there should be a
degree of trust and consistency with it. [...waits for waterfall of
comment about that last remark...]
The project homepage looks really restrained with a nice look and feel;
I liked the colourways chosen and also the use of pattern and the
desktop colour chosen for the non-active area around the page. This part
of the screen is often ignored, and it's good to see this used as part
of the overall picture.
One slight criticism of the homepage, for me, is that there's quite a
lot of key 'first glance' info lurking below the fold of the screen.
Look again at the tab, block and spacer dimensions around the pics and
nav and you'll see quite a lot of space taken up that could be trimmed,
bringing the hidden info back above the lower screen margin.
But that's a slight issue - the whole project works really well -
plaudits to Linda and the BMAG team, and the
[Birmingham-based]developers TAK!
Design
& Art Direction.
Jon P
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
Michael Comiskey
Sent: 26 June 2009 11:18
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Subject: Re: Launch of Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery's Pre-Rapahelite
website
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
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