Loupe.js – Add a Magnifying Glass to Web Images

February 4, 2008

You must check this out. At loupe.netzgesta.de Christian Effenberger has created a javascript-driven magnifying glass to selectively enlarge areas of your image and it is hellacious cool. It’s free for non-commercial and private sites and even if you’re not considering it for your web site, you should definitely check out their demos.

Loupe.js 1.3 allows you to add a loupe (magnifier) to images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean.

It works in all the major browsers – Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+, Safari and IE6+. On older browsers, it’ll degrade and your visitors won’t notice a thing.

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