WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version | The Coffeehouse

TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

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 Sad

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

CKurt
while( ( !succeed=try() ) ) { }

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

stevo_
Human after all

In reply to CKurt

#Mar 18th @ 1:20 PM

Worked for me (ie8).. pretty cool

TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

In reply to CKurt

#Mar 18th @ 1:20 PM

Maybe they don't like Belgians Sad

Charles
Welcome Change

Very cool!!
C

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

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.

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

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.

TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

In reply to Sven Groot

#Mar 18th @ 8:34 PM

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.

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

In reply to TommyCarlier

#Mar 18th @ 11:44 PM

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.

Stebet
Buuuurrrritoooo!

In reply to Sven Groot

#Mar 19th @ 12:31 AM

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

CreamFilling512

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

Harlequin
http://twitter.com/TrueHarlequin

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...

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

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.

sanatgersappa
Mad About You

Cool stuff. Works like a charm!

Jonathan Fay
Jonathan Fay

In reply to CKurt

#Mar 18th @ 1:20 PM

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

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

In reply to Jonathan Fay

#Mar 20th @ 8:44 AM

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).

Charles
Welcome Change

In reply to Sven Groot

#Mar 20th @ 8:45 AM

I've FW'd these issues to a Silverlight evangelist who will then FW to the appropriate Silverlight devs.
C

TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

In reply to Jonathan Fay

#Mar 20th @ 8:44 AM

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 Wink

)

magicalclick

In reply to Charles

#Mar 20th @ 10:17 AM

Mine works. Win7 Beta. The silverlight pops-up a request more storage window and I click yes, then, everything is working. The photo loading is faster than before, cool.

Jonathan Fay
Jonathan Fay

In reply to Sven Groot

#Mar 20th @ 8:45 AM

It you switch your region to US English does it work? Or fail? Just trying to isolate it.

Jonathan

Jonathan Fay
Jonathan Fay

In reply to Sven Groot

#Mar 20th @ 8:45 AM

I can't repro a problem by switching to "Netherlands" for region setting on my Vista64 box.

You may be seeing the Win7 issue. It may be ACL related... I will post when I have any more info..