MuchDev Posted November 18, 2015 Posted November 18, 2015 So I am about to implement a viewer for artwork on a site and am wondering if anyone had any thoughts on image viewer plugins. There are around a bagillion and I was wondering what everyone's thoughts on these were. I am thinking of using open seadragon as it has full screen viewing as well as a small viewer. Does anyone have a newer/better alternative that they are a fan of?
horst Posted November 18, 2015 Posted November 18, 2015 what I love these days is photoswipe 4! But it's not a single image viewer, it's a slideshow player. But the best I know of. It comes standalone (for performance!), has inbuilt support for mobiles, including sending smaller images to those devices, full support for mouse, keyboard and touchscreens, etc. As I said, I love it. I use it on my site. 5
MuchDev Posted November 18, 2015 Author Posted November 18, 2015 Man that sucker is fast, I'd seen that on your site before but wasn't thinking about this. The main reason I am leaning towards seadragon is it's zooming features. I would really like to allow for users to drag around and zoom in on things. Thank you for this, I will keep this plugin in mind though *bookmarked
horst Posted November 18, 2015 Posted November 18, 2015 (edited) It also has zooming functionality. You only have to use big enough images. Maybe you can test it with a smaller browser window and then double click into the image or click the magnifier icon. That panning and zooming is especially useful on mobiles, but can also be used on desktops. It also supports fullscreen mode. Have I allready said that I lo.., - ah yes, I had. PS: but it has not such a multi-stage zooming functionality like open seadragon. Edited November 18, 2015 by horst
Christophe Posted November 18, 2015 Posted November 18, 2015 I had already bookmarked PhotoSwipe. I've just done the same with OpenSeadragon. The "Tools" section at the bottom of https://openseadragon.github.io/examples/in-the-wild/ could also interest some of you. 1
MuchDev Posted November 18, 2015 Author Posted November 18, 2015 Yeah what got me thinking about all this was http://www.artsy.net which uses open seadragon for their image viewers. I will be doing something similar and I really like how their system works.
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