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BBC Silverlight Zoom and Wow

Apparently Radio 1's Big Weekend is a big thing in England, and to launch the festivities they've made The Big Zoomy Photo Thing a central piece of the action (as you may guess, this is Silverlight/Zoom incognito).

BigZoomy1
(picture cropped to save room)

The implementation is beautiful. Click, roll, zoom. To give you a quick sense of it, here are two images. The first is the starter, I then zoomed in on the control panel (pointed to by the red arrows I added.

BigZoomy ZoomedOut

BigZoomy ZoomedIn

The progressive rendering is just mind-blowing. Every time I see it. And it is a blast to see it in a live usage, even if they don't have any really interesting pictures up yet (they will soon).

One of the folks who did a lot of the programming is a buddy (he refuses to be credited) and I will work on talking him into an interview about the programming experience. Stay tuned. I know that Tim Heuer is also taking a long look at Zoom so we'll have a good deal more on this very soon.

Posted: May 10 2008, 09:54 AM by jesseliberty | with 11 comment(s) |
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# May 10, 2008 11:03 AM

BenHayat said:

Jesse, I hope by Beta 2 or RTM, MSFT will build Mouse scroll feature into DeepZoom within SL control. It's a natural way for the user to use the mouse for zooming/unzooming and I don't want to resort to JS to handle it. Can you push your weight for this feature request?

Secondly, at runtime if the user uploads a large image, we need to at server side to pass that image to image composer (as a silent mode) to create all the smaller images and the manifest file.

What's your thoughts?

# May 10, 2008 12:56 PM

BenHayat said:

The funny thing about the main site is that they use flash as their initial introduction about the zoom. I've seen some site that use flash to talk about Silverlight. That's like giving all the credit to flash and insulting SL.

# May 10, 2008 1:01 PM

lixin123 said:

The Silverlight control in the webpage doesn't work in FireFox.

# May 11, 2008 9:28 AM

Nick McKenna's Blog said:

Silverlight On The BBC!

# May 12, 2008 3:14 AM

tgrand said:

Works fine in Firefox for me.  (2.0.0.14 on 32-bit Vista.)

Also, regarding mouse handling, the updated Deep Zoom Composer claims to do it for you now (still via JS I assume):

blogs.msdn.com/.../an-update-to-deep-zoom-composer.aspx

# May 12, 2008 7:25 AM

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# May 12, 2008 9:10 AM

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# May 12, 2008 11:26 AM

Martin Grayson: Adventures of a 'Devigner' said:

Jesse Liberty notes the great use of deep zoom to show pictures from this weekend's One Big Weekend Festival

# May 13, 2008 2:51 AM

kiseok7 said:

at main page, flash introduce deepzoom :O

deep zoom is simple but powerful ui i think :)

thank you for post.

# May 13, 2008 5:50 AM

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# May 13, 2008 3:56 PM