On Mar 14, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Michael McCracken wrote:

> It looks really good. I had no problems with the zooming, it performed
> well (on a newish MBP).

Same here.

>
>
> Thanks for taking this on, it's really coming out well!

Agreed!

>
> 2 - the headings along the left are nice, but I'd like them more
> without the brackets.

It looks like the headings are one table-row up from the corresponding  
text in the second column. I think it would look better if they were  
flush at the top with the text they are meant to "head."

>
>
> 3 - in those headings and in other headings and captions, you use
> all-caps. My preference would be for regular capitalization and the
> headings would still stand out because they're in bold.
>>

Agreed. Also, the ones along the left are by themselves and so don't  
need much calling attention to.

>> I've worked a bit more on the web site. The design didn't really
>> change since the last iteration.
>>
>> It's just that the image zooming is a bit finicky. The readymade
>> scripts for that on the web all seem to be far less than perfect  
>> (e.g.
>> wrong maths for the scaling, no provision for long captions or even
>> loading the large images at all times, rather than on demand).
>>
>> So I looked around, tried to understand other people's JavaScript and
>> puzzled together a solution which at least doesn't distort images,
>> displays long captions and only loads the images when needed now.  
>> It's
>> probably still far from perfect (and the experience is 'less than
>> stellar' but not outright broken when viewed in IE), but it may do  
>> the
>> job.
>>
>> There were remarks on the zooming speed in an earlier iteration. As
>> this is based on the same script (fancyzoom), it'd be good if you
>> could test that again. The speed is fine on my MacBook and a bit slow
>> on the iPod touch (but I didn't expect much speed on the iPod  
>> anyway).
>>
>>        http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/bibdesk/bibdesk/index3.html
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>                Sven
>>
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