Embedded GigaPans with Microsoft’s Silverlight and HD View
With the release of Silverlight3, there’s a new way to embed GigaPans into a web page. I still get a bit confused by Microsoft’s usage of Silverlight Deep Zoom and HD View, but in any case they’ve got an product (or pair of them) that has some interesting features for the GigaPanner. Have a look:
This is another iFrame solution to embedding photos in a blog, so it won’t work for those using WordPress.com hosted blogs, but if you’re hosting your own WordPress.org blog or using other blogging software that allows iFrame embeds, this solution might work well for you.
One important thing to note: If you try to cut and paste the URL from GigaPan’s “View in Google Earth 4.2+” link below a geolocated GigaPan into the HD View Preview utility it won’t work. You’ll need to take the URL that you cut and paste and append “&nonl=1″ (minus the quotes) to the end of the URL. Why? Beats me, but I followed the examples they gave in the right hand sidebar to figure this out.
[Update: Well it looked good on their site, but apparently WordPress doesn't like it on my site. I just upgraded my servers, so it may be a configuration issue on my end. I'll keep investigating...]
[Update #2: It works now! Thanks to Eric Stollnitz for his assistance.]
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