{"id":348,"date":"2007-10-04T09:24:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T08:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=348"},"modified":"2007-10-04T09:24:19","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T08:24:19","slug":"microsoft-seadragon-smooth-scaling-for-web-images-coming-to-silverlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/348-microsoft-seadragon-smooth-scaling-for-web-images-coming-to-silverlight.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Seadragon: smooth scaling for web images, coming to Silverlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned Microsoft’s short presentation<\/a> yesterday here at the Future of Web Apps<\/a> conference. The highlight was a single page showing the complete works of Charles Dickens, with every page on view. We then zoomed in to read a page; the performance was great and the type perfectly clear. However I am taking it on trust that it really was all of Dickens works…<\/p>\n

The technology behind this is Seadragon<\/a>, acquired by Microsoft in February this year. I’m told that it will be integrated into Silverlight 1.1, so I guess we will be able to use this cross-platform next year. It is also used in Photosynth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Is it any different from what you can already do with say Google Maps<\/a> and related, or Virtual Earth<\/a>? The answer I guess is that amazing zoom capability is nothing new, but Seadragon looks like an advance in smoothness and probably ease of programming. The goal:<\/p>\n

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visual information can be smoothly browsed regardless of the amount of data involved or the bandwidth of the network.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Technorati tags: seadragon<\/a>, microsoft<\/a>, silverlight<\/a>, photosynth<\/a>, fowa<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mentioned Microsoft’s short presentation yesterday here at the Future of Web Apps conference. The highlight was a single page showing the complete works of Charles Dickens, with every page on view. We then zoomed in to read a page; the performance was great and the type perfectly clear. However I am taking it on … Continue reading Microsoft Seadragon: smooth scaling for web images, coming to Silverlight<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,80,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-software-development","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}