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Example of too much design and JS, cluttering up the value of the content. Here is the 10 first images with higher resolution. Increment the number to get the rest: http://codex-atlanticus.it/assets//2000/000R-1.jpg http://codex-atlanticus.it/assets//2000/000R-2.jpg http://codex-atlanticus.it/assets//2000/000R-3.jpg http://codex-atlanticus.it/assets//2000/000R-4.jpg http://codex-atlanticus.it/assets//2000/000R-5.jpg http://codex-atlanticus.it/assets//2000/000R-6.jpg http://codex-atlanticus.it/assets//2000/000R-7.jpg http://codex-atlanticus.it/assets//2000/000R-8.jpg http://codex-atlanticus.it/assets//2000/000R-9.jpg http://codex-atlanticus.it/assets//2000/000R-10.jpg

UPDATE: Threw together some simple HTML/JS for simple interaction: https://toogoodtogo-alerter.com/static/davinci.html (no analytics)

UPDATE Nr2:

-All images to browse on Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kf39feyjhqub1rq/AABsKUe3YB7Jxo4ub...

-One big ZIP: https://www.dropbox.com/s/82alw5mex6zqz6f/davinci-img.zip?dl... (1,1GB before+after zip)

Thanks to opsecisameme for the wget trick

I turned the .zip into a .PDF based on a simple alphabetical sort on the filenames.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/35xdelkimqc1k4i/codex_atlanticus.p...

My guess is that the page ordering is pretty far out of whack, but at least it's browsable and easily-archived now.

> UPDATE: Threw together some simple HTML/JS for simple interaction: https://toogoodtogo-alerter.com/static/davinci.html (no analytics)

Nice. I like the barebones and fast interface. But so far, this only includes the recto of each folio, not the verso. It would be nice if there was a way to see both. (e.g. see 527v: http://codex-atlanticus.it/assets//2000/000V-527.jpg, which is far more interesting than 527r)

Included a switch now. If you have some idea on a simpler interaction let med know.

I really like your simple version to browse the manuscript and I agree it should be available at codex-atlanticus.it, but removing the design and interaction you loose a lot of information. Maybe to you this information is useless, but to a lot of others it is not.

This edition has some nice, creative solutions to hard information presentation problems.

If only there was some kind of portable document format suitable for paged documents.

It’s a frequent issue with Italian and French sites.

Why single out those, it's a frequent issue with all sites.

Bias based on where I live. In my case most Swiss sites are rather good, every time I have to use French sites I struggle.

The images you linked seem easily accessible through the website.

Yes it is. But the page is bloated with heavy JS and design elements, making it hard to view the content on their page. They also serve you with a low-resolution version of the images.

That's true. I too would prefer a leaner page that would just let us navigate the full size images.

Check my update. Made such a page now ;)

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