I see what you mean, regarding the efficiency. Not seeing an immediate way around the IE efficiency problem, I'm looking into building a "Smarter" application - that would display the radar in a different way when viewed in IE.
To that end, since IE acts a lot better when the radar is opaque, I was looking at the potion of keeping the radar images opaque in IE, and somehow overlaying just the roads from the G_NORMAL_MAP on top of the radar image. I've seen it done, here: http://tropics.myfoxtampabay.com/index.php?siteID=1018&load=rdr I can't find any documentation to do that, other than by creating a hybrid layer - but that doesn't SEEM to fit my situation (but I could be missing something). Something similar is done for the Traffic overlays (a slightly modified version of your script:http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge2/.corey/ apiteamtesting/looping_bratliff3/?prod=NCR&rid=FWS), using this: var trafficInfo = new GTrafficOverlay(); Google.addOverlay(trafficInfo); Is there a similar option for the roads? On Aug 25, 7:04 am, bratliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 24, 9:51 pm, Geostrophic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Firstly, I'm sorry I didnt' havea chance to get those png iages to you > > this past week. It was a crazy one. Judging from your post though, I > > was fishing off the wrpng pier. Thank you, once again, for the advice > > with this. You've been amazing. > > > The rescaling theory is a great one, and makes wonderful sense, as the > > api doesn't begin to get sluggish until the user zooms to a level at > > which the gif images no longer fit in the api window size - thus, > > theoretically beginning the need for rescaling. > > > Any idea why this only is a major concern in the IE environment? I > > wonder if there is a way to force it to only scale the images once. > > > Do you think that removing and then re-adding the images upon each > > zoom would elevate the problem? ...or would the rescaling need to be > > done regardless? When I get back to work tomorrow, I can test that > > theory, simply by making the defailt zoom, a tight zoom, and see if > > the looping is smoother at that beginning zoom level. > > I added some "radio" buttons to: > > www.polyarc.us/ridge > > to let you see the the impact on performance of opacity & rescaling > the GIF images to fit. If you click rescale / false, you will see the > animation speed improve but the GIFs are no longer properly sized. It > is more noticable at faster clock speeds which you can also control. > You can see the impact of changing opacity also. The animation will > run faster at 100% opacity which disables opacity. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
