...and how would you go about sending the appropriate dimensions? Thanks! Corey
On Sep 3, 2:55 pm, bratliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 3, 5:11 pm, Geostrophic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 > > Unfortunately, it uses Flash which to some may be a deal breaker. It > also appears to be using its own custom tile set rather than your GIF > files. > > Correct scaling can really improve animation speed. I could easily > send you width & height parameters if you could adjust the GIF file to > fit. Otherwise, the browser must do it for every frame of every > cycle. > > The natural dimensions of the GIF files are 600 x 550 pixels. The > browser does a pretty lousy job of stretching or squeezing it to fit. > Pixel interpolation at the server will really improve the appearance. > IE7 can do it reasonable well but it adds overhead. IE6 has a less > capable "Blur" filter which also adds overhead. Firefox has nothing > except simulated dithering with multiple partially opaque copies of > the same file at slight offsets. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
