Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Inside MSR's Chronozoom with Rane Johnson. http://ak.channel9.msdn.com/ch9/68dd/8e04a4ad-f31d-4e3c-a44e-c1b93e5f68dd/Chronozoom_220.jpg Channel 9 - Inside MSR's Chronozoom with Rane Johnson. How do you best present history that spans billions of years? That was the challenge taken on by MSR recently with Chronozoom. The resulting site presents a multimedia timeline using DeepZoom through HTML5 to explore significant events across a variety of curated collections from the best professors and presenters around the world. I stopped by Rane Johnson's office at MSR to talk about her project, the challenges of DeepZooming 2 billion years per second in HTML, as well as some of the work she is doing to engage with students to get them excited about science and technology. en Thu, 23 May 2013 14:13:19 GMT Thu, 23 May 2013 14:13:19 GMT Rev9 Re: Inside MSR's Chronozoom with Rane Johnson. Awesome stuff. I've been meaning to check this out for a while but didn't get around to it until now.

I do wonder why HTML/JS was chosen as a platform, especially since it apparently poses the performance problems Rane mentions. Why not a native/managed app that you install locally? Wouldn't that have eased development a great deal?

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