2010 United States Federal Budget in Full Details with Zooming

Jess Bachman, creator of the now famous Death and Taxes poster depicting the US Federal Budget, relied once again on Zoomorama to present his poster. With Zoomorama to show all the details we hope to sell more posters than with a regular presentation.

On Twitter Jess (mibi) wrote: "preparing the Death and Taxes zoomorama today. Is there a better zooming application out there? I doubt it.". Thanks Jess for the nice words ! We hope you sell a lot of posters

This year we added a "Quick Find" menu, implemented with simple CSS. There is not programming in the implementation, just notifying in the ZML (Zooming Markup Language) the area of focus associated with each menu entry. Done in no time. Here is the CCS for the left side menu:

.leftpan-hover:hover + .leftpan {
  -zm-transition-duration:0.2;
  -zm-transition-timing-function:linear;
  -zm-transition-property:left;
  left:0;
 }

Anyone cares to make it any simpler to create of pop-up menu ? 
You can access the full ZML (Zooming Markup Language) of the page by clicking HERE.

Another nifty idea is to send a view by mail, not just the poster but the actual part of the poster that you want to share. Simply zoom to the part you want, to to "Menu" at the top right, and click on "send to a friend". The URL in the reciptient's email will have the correct focus when he opens the poster. Try it !

Soon we will allow anyone to do the same on their own, using XML, CSS, and Javascript. Just a few more weeks of patience !

Comments

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Thanks for this great post
I’ve been trying to understand the state of U.S. finances. My gut says that spending more than we have is self-destructive–even for a big country. I’m looking for facts.
I came upon I.O.U.S.A., a really interesting non-partisan documentary that I got from Netflix. This is not the first time in history that the U.S. has had a huge debt. It is the first time that the U.S. government has borrowed from foreigners instead of its own people. I have found a free abbreviated version at http://www.picktorrent.com