Comments on: Seadragon: zoom deeply in the world of Ajax

By: Gruvster

Gruvster — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:03:22 +0000

For those of you who refuse to touch anything from Micro$oft, there is an open source alternative! - IIPImage, which has already been featured on Ajaxian

By: emailandthings

emailandthings — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:59:09 +0000

Quite impressive and creative. Did I say creative? wait this is M$… ok M$ spill the beans, where did you guys copy this from?

By: ThomasHansen

ThomasHansen — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:12:11 +0000

Wow…!
Impressive Microsoft :)
I wouldn’t believe you guys would ever create something which destroyed your main USP of Silverlight. ;)
Great work…
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Are these the winds of change or just “facades” to try to convert people like me…?
I’m still not a believer, but this did put me a little bit closer… ;)

By: Schill

Schill — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:08:53 +0000

Looks like canvas loading 256x256 JPEG tiles, and scaling accordingly for transitioning between "zoom levels". The 2.1-gigapixel Yosemite panorama is a pretty nice demo, zoom in on the waterfall for example.

By: vsync

vsync — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:21:50 +0000

ho i think it gets stuck cause of the ajax that gets the images makes it this way :) should have made a smart algorithm for this case..or something

By: vsync

vsync — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:14:05 +0000

Doesn’t feel so slick on my dual-core system 2gb Ram :p
but very very impressive!!!!!

By: MrMoo

MrMoo — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:46:20 +0000

Dang, that feels slick even on my slow-assed internet connection. Very nicely done.