The WebImageViewer is a very powerful web control that we offer to our customers. It does a lot of work for you behind the scenes to make the experience as application-like as possible. It even takes that a step further with the RemoteInvoke method and RemoteInvoked event by providing customers with the ability to make server-side function calls ...

This is Part 3 of a multi-part blog series. The OnDemand method The Interval method The Interval Opacity method On the previous two slider examples, I used a YUI slider that had a range from -100 to 100, with a total of 201 possible values.  Both of these examples still have some disconnect from the action ...

This is Part 2 of a multi-part blog series. The OnDemand method The Interval method The Interval Opacity method On the previous slider example, I used a YUI slider that had a range from -100 to 100.  This is a total of 201 different combinations for one image dialog, and that's about 10-20 times more ...

This is Part 1 of a multi-part blog series. The OnDemand method The Interval method The Interval Opacity method One of the most common dialogs in an image editor application is the slider with preview.  When you move these applications over to the Web, you end up losing some of the user experience because of the asynchronous ...

One of the easiest usability improvements that can be made to an imaging application, is the ability to hide the thumbnails from view when they are no longer needed.  Most users would prefer to see as much of the image, and as little of the application on the screen as possible. Using YUI's Animation Utility, you can accomplish ...

I think the subject speaks for itself, but I'll ask anyway. How do I implement PDF viewing on the clientside?  Thanks

Recently we had a customer ask if we had anything like our WinForms Magnifier MouseTool available on the WebForms side of things.  We get this question somewhat frequently, and it's always one of those features that seems to fall off the end of the development cycle to higher priority features.  The answer to this question has always ...

Lou and I recently returned from the AjaxWorld Conference & Expo in NYC.  Most of the sessions I attended were very informative, some were advertorials, some were advertisements, and a few were actually laughable.  This AjaxWorld conference was not run as well as the last one I attended.  The biggest problems I saw with this ...

One of the most sought after features for developers using our products is that of printing multi-page document images through the web using a thin client/AJAX approach.  There are a set of fundamental problems with doing this: Printing can only be done using the browser's print dialog, as there is no direct way to interface with the ...

It's been a while since I last spoke about anything on this blog... the main reason for this is we've been hard at work getting the DotImage 4.0 release out.  Now that it's out, I'd like to show you the two coolest additions to the our AJAX WebControls. We've added a new AJAX thumbnail control, and we've completely redeveloped the ...