CSS magnifying glass

Posted in geekage on 01/29/2007 08:58 pm by Jimbo

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.

 

5 Comments

  1. bruce
    01/30/2007 at 12:11 pm

    I was gonna say, it’s great. But instead:

    C’mon girlfriend!

  2. bruce
    01/30/2007 at 12:13 pm

    I was gonna say it looks nice. But instead, I say

    C’MON GIRLFRIEND!!!

  3. Blair Millen
    01/31/2007 at 8:38 am

    Wow, that magnifier is fantastic. Is this just a test page or can I link to it permanently?

  4. Jim
    01/31/2007 at 9:22 am

    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?)

  5. Jim
    01/31/2007 at 9:52 am

    It works nicely with pcitures from the prints collection too: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/magnify2.cfm?reproID=PZ7125#content

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