Had a chat at the War Museum last week, in which we talked (among other things) about the difficulty of making large paintings available in detail over the web. This afternoon I knocked together a quick magnifying glass, using CSS and the DOM-Drag javascript library. The code behind it is pretty crappy at the moment (it’s a rehash of the magnifier I wrote about 4 years ago) but I think it looks promising: The British Power Boat Company.
I was gonna say, it’s great. But instead:
C’mon girlfriend!
I was gonna say it looks nice. But instead, I say
C’MON GIRLFRIEND!!!
Wow, that magnifier is fantastic. Is this just a test page or can I link to it permanently?
Blair: That’s a test template, but feel free to link to it.
Here’s an annotated picture.
Bruce: “Oh yeah!” (hmmm, why does HTML have a tag for strong, but not for insipid?)
It works nicely with pcitures from the prints collection too: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/magnify2.cfm?reproID=PZ7125#content