The proliferation of mobile devices has made responsive web design one of the hottest topics in web design. Modern web sites need to be usable on a large range of screen resolutions and sizes, from low resolution mobile devices to high resolution monitors […]
Version 0.2 of our analytics tool, IIPAnalyze is now available! This version adds user agent filtering as well as histograms showing user activity over time. The following histograms, for example, show how the frequency of tile requests made (by all users and only Firefox users) varies with time after the users first load the IIPImage […]
A binary distribution is now available for Mac OS X users! Both Desktop and Server editions of recent releases include Apache by default, making installation of IIPImage very straightforward. This binary has been statically compiled with libtiff4 (including BigTIFF support), libjpeg8 and libmemcached to enable users to have IIPImage up and running instantly without the […]
We now have a basic analytics tool for IIPImage! IIPAnalyze allows you to analyze incoming IIP protocol image requests to the IIPImage server. It can tell you which are the most viewed regions of a particular image and display histograms showing tile usage, globally or per resolution level. It can also output image hotspot image […]
Guest Post by Mike Read, Wide-field Astronomy Unit, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh The Wide-Field Astronomy Unit (WFAU), Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh specializes in building and maintaining science archives from astronomical surveys. The bulk of the data we currently process come from two infrared telescopes: VISTA in the southern hemisphere and UKIRT […]
Guest Post by Edu Hackenitz, University Library Utrecht The Utrecht University Library Special Collections contain many extensive collections of manuscripts, pre-1901 printed works, more recent rare and valuable printed works, maps and nautical charts. The library takes care of the acquisition, conservation, scanning, cataloging and availability of this material. […]
We’ve just updated our IIPImage 0.9.9 server packages for the latest release of Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin. The packages now automatically install and configure the IIPImage server for use with Apache or Lighttpd. Packages are available for both 32 and 64 bit machines and should be compatible with both Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04. The build […]
In preparation for the imminent full release of version 2.0, I’ve moved the IIPMooViewer code to Github. You can check out the repository here https://github.com/ruven/iipmooviewer New features since the beta release include: Javascript Fullscreen API support Scalable SVG icons Improved window resizing Localization support Plenty of bug fixes and improved ergonomy The code is also […]
It will soon finally be time for a new release of the IIPMooViewer! To whet your appetite and allow you all to test it out, here is a beta release of the forthcoming version 2.0. This new release contains a huge amount of funky new features and has been upgraded to use the latest web […]
How To Install IIPImage on Windows 2008/IIS7 – 2008R2/IIS7.5 It is now finally possible to install IIPImage on IIS7 and IIS7.5! Many thanks indeed to Ricardo Valdiviezo for getting this to work and for sending us the following detailed and illustrated tutorial. Installation First, if it is not already installed, install IIS 7/7.5. Install the […]
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