John is a currently Web developer/designer with Space Imaging. While not drooling over amazing images of Earth or teaching HTML and Flash courses, he shovels snow and cuts wood in the foothills near Denver.
If Flash is the death of HTML, Zoomify may be the death of JPGs, GIFs, and
PNGs. While this sounds like marketing hoopla, zooms on the Web may change
how designers and developers display images. Ultimately, this will enable
quick, interactive access to high-resolution imagery on the Web, CD-ROM, and
handheld devices creating richer, more informative, and more entertaining
user experiences just by improving the way images are delivered.
Basically, Zoomify is a set of Flash MX 2004 APIs. Combine those with a
"zoomified" image and you've got an SWF that allows users to pan and zoom.
Creating an image is as simple as opening the Zoomifyer droplet. This .exe
goes to work copying an image many times at different resolution levels,
breaking it up into thousands of JPGs. When co... (more)
John is a currently Web developer/designer with Space Imaging. While not drooling over amazing images of Earth or teaching HTML and Flash courses, he shovels snow and cuts wood in the foothills near Denver.
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