Realzoom

[axobi1]

Hello - I was reading some stuff online and ran across a site so curious to find out more. I looked at the source online and found it was utilizing 'realzoom.js' and did a search online and found it is done by http://www.afarsitebetter.com/realZOOM/. Anyway, just wondering if anyone knows if I can find a script like that to download or similar to it??? Thanks!!!

[djr33]

Hmmm... weird script. Heh. I kinda like it, but it also annoys me.

I'm not even close to good enough at JS to try that.

1. You might want to try using flash... might be easier.
2. Doesn't seem impossible to code... it's just relating cursor position on an image (and faking an extension of the cursor with that) to what part of the image is shown in a DIV that pops up. But.... yeah... pretty advanced.... not impossible, though.
BTW, one note-- the reason it loads quickly is that it is already loaded... the little image is just scaled down by the browser and when you rollover, the full size image is shown...
It's kinda a cheap JS trick by the company trying to get you to buy their product... the code isn't that cool... though it does look kinda nice.
or
3. Hopefully someone will just find a link to something open source for you.

[Twey]

BTW, one note-- the reason it loads quickly is that it is already loaded... the little image is just scaled down by the browser and when you rollover, the full size image is shown...

No, the larger image loads more slowly than the smaller image, thus betraying the fact that they are two seperate images.

3. Hopefully someone will just find a link to something open source for you.

Actually, since the source is open to viewing, it's technically open-source. Don't confuse open-source software with Free software.

[jscheuer1]

I've never been that much of a hacker but, just for fun I tried just saving the files used and, you guessed it, they are encrypted and salted with illegal characters.

[Twey]

The (mistaken) key word is "encrypted." They're not actually encrypted, just obfuscated, so technically the source is still viewable.

[jscheuer1]

Well, I meant encrypted in the general sense, as it is used to mean escaped. But there is a twist, or seems to be, in that some of the characters in a variable used as a sort of 'key' are considered illegal even if the .js file is linked to directly from the server.

To perhaps explain what I mean more fully, I often will use FF to view a page's source then copy that and save it as an html file for troubleshooting purposes. Rather than have to find and copy all the associated graphics and resource files, just to work on a single page, I then set the local copy's base href to its original's location. Even doing just that, the site with the bicycle parts' script stopped working and the error was:

Error: illegal character
Source File: http://www.answerproducts.com/includes/zoomer.js
Line: 11, Column: 4
Source Code:
wo%7!nf~j} /jtqk%4U&:8N&f($/#>qoplw~&h{w#&z|wz~F%N/+8Q0i'3/!v%ey8oqlw+|k"yz|~9D8>YB)rx32+y$t}p"t";|x{}4V=2?Q.v|;#)(Ah+|m,*-~-."z+Y*MJeE,u{65.|'w0 q4{+-Js|~*T<R>KT1y>&,+Dk%wt&&.p#1+z?J>D_H/x~981*z*{x.w,@s1!q:\CAY2-0;~/,9||"|$-%y$%$%1_0Q[Qq.:)+0

[Twey]

That's odd.

[djr33]

Open source.... yes... I realized that after I posted it... but... open source implies it's ok to mess with/use/otherwise do things to the source code. This isn't free, so it isn't what I'd call (colloqually (sp?)) open source.
Irrelevant anyway... you're right, technically.
Likewise,

encrypted in the general sense

Anyway....

I'm on broadband... maybe it does load more slowly, but I didn't notice... nevermind...


And... yeah... they're gonna try to stop you from using the code they're trying to make money off of... but I'd certainly never pay for that... just not cool enough.

[ddadmin]

Well, I think people have come to understand and assume "open source" to mean something that's essentially free, not whether the source is open for viewing.

Regarding if there's an alternate, open source version of the above script, something like TJPzoom perhaps: http://valid.tjp.hu/zoom2/index_en.html

[djr33]

That's a pretty cool script