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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.

Published Saturday, May 10, 2008 9:54 AM by jesseliberty

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# BBC Silverlight Zoom and Wow | My Geek Solutions

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Saturday, May 10, 2008 11:03 AM by BBC Silverlight Zoom and Wow | My Geek Solutions

# re: BBC Silverlight Zoom and Wow

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?

Saturday, May 10, 2008 12:56 PM by BenHayat

# re: BBC Silverlight Zoom and Wow

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.

Saturday, May 10, 2008 1:01 PM by BenHayat

# re: BBC Silverlight Zoom and Wow

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

Sunday, May 11, 2008 9:28 AM by lixin123

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Monday, May 12, 2008 3:14 AM by Nick McKenna's Blog

# re: BBC Silverlight Zoom and Wow

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

Monday, May 12, 2008 7:25 AM by tgrand

# re: BBC Silverlight Zoom and Wow | My Geek Solutions

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Monday, May 12, 2008 9:10 AM by re: BBC Silverlight Zoom and Wow | My Geek Solutions

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Monday, May 12, 2008 11:26 AM by Community Blogs

# BBC's One Big Weekend in 'One Big Zoomy Photo Thing'

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

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:51 AM by Martin Grayson: Adventures of a 'Devigner'

# re: BBC Silverlight Zoom and Wow

at main page, flash introduce deepzoom :O

deep zoom is simple but powerful ui i think :)

thank you for post.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 5:50 AM by kiseok7

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