WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version

Microsoft Research launched a preview of the WorldWide Telescope Web Client, a Silverlight version of the WorldWide Telescope. I was excited to try it, but unfortunately it closes my browser soon after loading

Did anyone else try it? Does it work on your machine? How's the experience?

CKurt said:

I tried it. IE8 gave popup and failed loading page...

Worked for me (ie8).. pretty cool

CKurt said:

I tried it. IE8 gave popup and failed loading page...

Maybe they don't like Belgians

Sounds awesome, but it popped up a message about registering a JIT debugger and then froze up IE7. Gonna try to get this to work tomorrow.

It crashes here too. IE8 tries to recover the tab, it immediately crashes again, and I get the "couldn't recover tab" message. There is nothing in the event log.

EDIT: It also crashes Firefox, so it's Silverlight, not the browser.

Sven Groot said:

It crashes here too. IE8 tries to recover the tab, it immediately crashes again, and I get the "couldn't recover tab" message. There is nothing in the event log.

EDIT: It also crashes Firefox, so it's Silverlight, not the browser.

I think it's some kind of localization bug, since only Belgian and Dutch people seem to be affected. I filed a bug report and got a reply that they couldn't reproduce the problem yet.

TommyCarlier said:

Sven Groot said:

*snip*

I think it's some kind of localization bug, since only Belgian and Dutch people seem to be affected. I filed a bug report and got a reply that they couldn't reproduce the problem yet.

I'm using an English version of Windows though, and my IE language is also set to en-us. Only my regional settings are Dutch.

Sven Groot said:

TommyCarlier said:

*snip*

I'm using an English version of Windows though, and my IE language is also set to en-us. Only my regional settings are Dutch.

It crashes on both my machines as well. One is running Win7 x64 and IE8, the other Vista x64 and IE8.

Works fine on 3 different machines here, all running Win7.

That's gotta be the smoothest "deep zoom" image quaility changes I've seen. None of that choppy loading-pieces you get with online maps.

Nice...

Tried it in IE8, still the same thing. Even better, despite IE8 having every tab as a separate instance, it still managed to freeze up all of IE.

This sucks, guys.

Cool stuff. Works like a charm!

CKurt said:

I tried it. IE8 gave popup and failed loading page...

We are looking into this issue, and a related issue with IE8 under Win7 beta. It seem to be related to some Belgian and Dutch localized Windows clients.

You could try running it under another browser as a work-around until we can figure this our, or just install the full Windows Client. If you *can* run the Windows client you get much more functionality and 60FPS GPU accelerated performanced that can't be matched in a browser.

Jonathan

Jonathan Fay said:

CKurt said:

*snip*

We are looking into this issue, and a related issue with IE8 under Win7 beta. It seem to be related to some Belgian and Dutch localized Windows clients.

You could try running it under another browser as a work-around until we can figure this our, or just install the full Windows Client. If you *can* run the Windows client you get much more functionality and 60FPS GPU accelerated performanced that can't be matched in a browser.

Jonathan

Again, I'm not running a localized version of Windows. Only my regional settings are Dutch, everything else is English. And the problem occurs in both IE8 and Firefox (I'm using Win7 x64, for reference).

Jonathan Fay said:

CKurt said:

*snip*

We are looking into this issue, and a related issue with IE8 under Win7 beta. It seem to be related to some Belgian and Dutch localized Windows clients.

You could try running it under another browser as a work-around until we can figure this our, or just install the full Windows Client. If you *can* run the Windows client you get much more functionality and 60FPS GPU accelerated performanced that can't be matched in a browser.

Jonathan

I already have the full Windows Client installed at home and I think it's awesome. I was just curious how well the Silverlight version would perform. (and the Silverlight version is great to run at work )