May 11

New Image System

The site’s getting prepped for some updates.  One thing that went in today was a new image system based on Lightview by Nick Stakenburg.  I haven’t bought the license yet (mystmovie.com will apply as a commercial venture) because I wanted to complete some testing.  But, from what it looks like — things are working fine across XP, Vista, OSX in the major browsers.  This is a good sign.

What also is a good sign is that I’m installing a new image system in the first place.  This might be a hint that a lot of imagery is coming soon… hmm… or, I could just be a web geek.

The Book Box post is currently using the system.  Let me know if it like makes your comp explode or something.

Posted at 1:48 pm by Patrick in website
19 others write,
  • Gorobayreply
    May 11 2008 1:54 pm

    Book Box looks fine to me (Firefox on XP).

  • Sorceressreply
    May 11 2008 2:17 pm

    Works just fine (IE7 on XP).

  • Riverreply
    May 11 2008 2:20 pm

    weee, exciting! I like the idea of prepping for updates and images and stuff like that :D

    Book Box works very nicely for me, I like it (Firefox on XP here too). It works all right in my IE as well, though not quite as smoothly as in Firefox.

  • børgereply
    May 11 2008 2:45 pm

    It looks nice and works fine for me too (Firefox 3 nightly, Ubuntu Linux), but it looks quite simple and I really don’t understand why you need to buy some kind of system to do it..!? I see that this blog is built upon WordPress, and WordPress 2.5 has a built in gallery system. And with a plugin like Shutter Reloaded it’s dead simple to get the fancy Ajax lightbox effects.

  • børgereply
    May 11 2008 2:46 pm

    PS: Also, I hope that the Myst movie will be sold in a box like that! It looks great!

  • Nek'rahmreply
    May 11 2008 2:49 pm

    Let me guess, we’re gunna see the full Cyan Video soon?

    _^^

    BTW, looks fine for me (XP FireFox)

  • The Educated Foolreply
    May 11 2008 3:57 pm

    Works great on XP SP3.

  • Kohdireply
    May 11 2008 3:59 pm

    Looks fine on my computer, XP and IE7.

    “PS: Also, I hope that the Myst movie will be sold in a box like that! It looks great!”
    Love the sound of that… :)

  • Merrik Stryfereply
    May 11 2008 4:17 pm

    The images work and the pictures make me salivate.

    Firefox on Vista.

  • Herohtarreply
    May 11 2008 5:19 pm

    Very nice. But surely there is a version that doesn’t require you to buy a license? That seems such a simple thing, and I’ve seen it used in many places…

  • Jesstechreply
    May 11 2008 7:28 pm

    Patrick, why not just use lightweight jQuery and a free adaptation of Lightbox? There’s plenty of implementations; some are just for images but others will do everything ranging to AJAX requests.

    Prototype and scriptaculous are resource hogs and huge libraries compared to jQuery.

  • realXCVreply
    May 11 2008 7:56 pm

    Works with IE7 and Safari on XP SP3.

  • AndyBlooShoesreply
    May 11 2008 9:05 pm

    It made my comp explode; I’m typing this from my other computer!

    Haha, just kidding! :p

  • Chuxterreply
    May 12 2008 9:25 am

    Looks good on Camino on OSX 10.5

  • Baladriareply
    May 12 2008 9:33 am

    Firefox + Vista. All systems go.

  • Artovelireply
    May 12 2008 3:58 pm

    Hmm, very interesting…

  • BenMechreply
    May 12 2008 5:38 pm

    Looks F-I-N-E on OSX Tiger Safari 3

  • Defkareply
    May 13 2008 10:05 am

    That’s one slick viewer, looking good

  • StarCat79reply
    May 14 2008 6:11 pm

    good to go on pre-intel mac OSX Tiger Safari.

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