Comments on: Web-Based Software Integration For Dissemination Of Archival Images: The Frontiers Of Science Website

By: XTF, visualizar colecciones « guilleten

XTF, visualizar colecciones « guilleten — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:18:16 +0000

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By: Gary Browne

Gary Browne — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:42:14 +0000

@Mike,
Thanks for the feedback. Zoomify is pretty easy to work with, though next time I’d be more likely to use or write a jQuery plugin.
Cheers,
Gary

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:58:05 +0000

Awesome, just checked out the live site. I love the zoom effect when you click on the comic strips.

By: Gary Browne

Gary Browne — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:16:23 +0000

@Serge,
Thanks, I hope your head is ok now :)
The site was done in 6 weeks, not including digitisation of the strips.
The jQuery Tools library is great to work with, I used it for the scrollable thumbnails. I combined that with the search capabilities of the eXtensible Text Framework (XTF).
Cheers,
Gary

By: Serge Zenin

Serge Zenin — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:49:28 +0000

Wow, this is amazing. I never knew you could make scrollable previews like that. Just looking at all the code to produce this, sorta makes my head explode, but i’m definitely bookmarking this for reference! So cool, how much time did you spend on this?

By: Gary Browne

Gary Browne — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 01:26:30 +0000

@Tesla generator,

Glad this information is useful to you.

Kind regards,
Gary

By: Tesla generator

Tesla generator — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:48:34 +0000

I like this because it’s highly functional and extremely useful for the user. I’m going to have to go over the information a little bit longer, but at least it’s all here. Thanks for taking the time to write this up!

By: Gary Browne

Gary Browne — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:25:52 +0000

@Anon,

Thanks for your feedback. Granted, the site is not ideal in this respect. This stems from the difficulty of balancing several projects at once, tight deadlines and conflicting user requirements by which one is bound. I have attempted to acknowledge this in the article.

Thanks also for your development tips, they are much appreciated. I hope I do get some time in the future to improve the site further in terms of accessibility.

Kind regards,
Gary

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:12:45 +0000

oh, and funny, it does not work without javascript. if you had have just had a simple click on the thumbnail to view the larger image, you wouldnt need flash or javascript. indeed, you acknowledge the problems of using flash, not usable by some useragents. javascript in and of itself (without flash) is also unusable on by some useragents.

the correct way to design a website such as this, is to make it usable with just html, then make it nice looking with css, and then add javascript to add all that nice stuff like lightbox or whatever.

By: Code4Lib Journal – n° 14 « pintiniblog

Code4Lib Journal – n° 14 « pintiniblog — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:26:44 +0000

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