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This is a follow-up to a post I did about 3 weeks ago for my site http://www.ZoomRead.com http://www.ZoomRead.com. HN gave a lot of really good feedback and I a
by daviding 16y ago
This is a follow-up to a post I did about 3 weeks ago for my site http://www.ZoomRead.com http://www.ZoomRead.com. HN gave a lot of really good feedback and I appreciate it:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1726256 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1726256
The main message was that the various ways of moving around and 'zooming' (of course) needed to be smoother. For that I've taken a look at the Silverlight 'DeepZoom' (seadragon) API - and so far it's worked quite well.
I'm currently working on 'falling back' to the AJAX client if Silverlight isn't chosen to be used, and will see if I can make it a little faster too.
Thanks again for the feedback from before, and do let me know how this version works out for you. It's been fun working on it.
- nswanberg 16y agoCool. Starting the page zoomed in to an instruction page is helpful, but consider beginning the app zoomed out and set the double-click to zoom. You could provide instructions as a pop-up div. A new user to the page could then see all of the categories and, if the user has never encountered DeepZoom, a cool surprise. Again, nice app!
- daviding 16y agoThanks! Yes, it would be easy to do that. There are 'hover' buttons on the bottom right with a 'home' icon, but I need to bring them out a bit more, i.e. a bit dull in those noisy screen previews. I was wondering about using a temp cookie and doing a bit of an automated tour, i.e. start at the top, and then wait for a second, then down to instructions. Not sure how good/annoying that would be though...