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Add a Fancy Zoom to Web Site Photos
Thursday, April 24, 2008
I’m a Mac user. I like a little eye candy. As PixoBebo progresses, I become a little more daring and adventurous. Today I used my Mac, Panic’s Transmit, my favorite FTP utility, and a nifty Javascript from one of the Transmit developers to add a fancy zoom to web page photos. It’s pretty. It now works. It was an adventure.
Reader Comments
Kate MacKenzie said:
Thanks, John. I’ll take a look at it, too. Looks like FancyZoom is working well now (in all major browsers).
That brings up an interesting question. What are all the ‘major’ browsers?
Internet Explorer probably tops the list, then Firefox, then Safari (very small market share, relative to the others). That’s about it.
John said:
You might also want to try Highslide JS (http://vikjavev.no/highslide/) for your image zooms. Although the zooming effect isn’t quite as nice, it has a lot more features overall and more importantly, it actually works in all of the major browsers.
Lee Connors said:
Congratulations on fixing the problem. The pop up images look really good and makes it easier to see the detail from the software windows.
I agree with your earlier assessment. CSS is a four letter word. I can spell it but I don’t have to like it.
Kate MacKenzie said:
Yes, I used my computer to work on my web site. Is that a bad thing?
Cabel Sasser, who wrote the FancyZoom Javascript also works at Panic, which publishes Transmit. It’s not much of a connection, but it’s a connection. And a plug.
Still working on the Javascript issue. I suspect a conflict with other Javascript on the site, but haven’t figured out which one. Yet.
John Koetsier said:
This is not working properly on my Firefox on Mac either. Some work, some images only half of it expands ...
Odd!
Question: why on earth would you credit Transmit for helping you do this? What does and FTP utility have to do with the Javascript that you’re using to accomplish this? That’s kinda like saying “I used my computer to add eye candy to my website.”
Kate MacKenzie said:
The ‘raisin’ quote came from Panic. I assumed, too, that is was totally tongue-in-cheek.
I’m increasingly disappointed in Mac and PC browsers that don’t function or render pages according to ‘standards.’ Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is the defacto standard for most PC users, and page rendering is the worst among browsers.
Why does Javascript work in some browsers and not others? FancyZoom works fine in Firefox 3.0, but not so well in earlier versions, yet fine in Safari? This kind of crapola performance is silly.
Jade said:
Just one thing: raison d’être has nothing to do with raisins. It means “reason for being” as in what something is meant for. Unless this was a tongue-in-cheek translation… then oops, silly me
Ben said:
It works on the iPhone, it’s slow and renders to the left of the thumbnail, but it works!