Topic: Seadragon in-browser large image viewer

[Peardian]

I like how this turned out. Nice job, Microsoft.


That map is taking forever to convert for me.

[JonLeung]

Use the shortened URL, instead of the full one that includes the original URL.

[Peardian]

I did. Of course, I was checking it less than 10 minutes after you posted it, so it probably hadn't finished converting yet.


Now it loads in an instant, and it is a sight to behold.

[Maxim]

The long URL redirects to the short one as soon as it's been first opened. I mentioned it as an easy way to "seadragonise" - I guess that should be "zoom.itize" - images without having to find out the short URL first, and thus maybe something to add to the site for larger maps. Of course, the manual editing doesn't play well with that.

[Peardian]

And the good news is, it recognizes files that have already been uploaded, so even the long URL is just as effective after the first use.

[JonLeung]

If I had to, for whatever reason, delete, modify, or rename the original file, how would that affect it?

[Peardian]

Hmmm... not sure. You can try testing it with a small image like I did and change the file in between attempts. (I'd try it myself but I don't have my own website to keep the file URLs identical. )

[JonLeung]

I missed the bus on the way home so I stopped by the Apple Store at Southgate Mall today.  Now, every time I miss the bus, I've made a habit of trying out the iPads and then leaving Safari on VGMaps.com (>_>) and have become familiar with the fact that the iPads (or at least these demo units) don't like the really big maps, such as most of them for Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night.  But today I went to this topic and then to the zoom.it link that I posted, and was pleased to see that the iPad is now able to view the map of the entire castle that way, with the same multi-touch pinch-zoom functionality.  Neato!

[Peardian]

That's good. Yeah, as far as I can tell, Safari (and Macs in general?) chokes on most large images or gifs.

[Revned]

It's more likely a lack of RAM than the browser itself. Takes a lot of memory to view huge images.

[Peardian]

Considering the same images could be viewed on my home PC (with 512 MB of RAM) without problem, I wouldn't be so sure about that.

[Revned]

Considering I use a Mac and never have any problems, I am sure about that. The iPad only has 256 MB of RAM, which is hardly anything, especially when trying to load such massive images. When your computer loads an image from, say, a PNG file, it decompresses it into memory. My full SotN map is over 500 MB uncompressed.