On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:25:25AM -0800, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > I don't understand the point of what you're doing. It would be simpler to > have a panorama that one could scroll through, left to right. It seems like > an exercise in technology more than anything else. Speaking for myself, > the viewing experience is awful and not at all satisfying. > > This thing that you've done takes forever to download on a dialup > connection, requires plugins that, obviously, some people don't have, or > which are not up to date, plus, Java dumps a bunch of hidden files onto the > user's computer. Most people may not know that, and some may not want that > (I certainly don't) for any number of reasons. I know where they are and > clean out the files every now and then, but others may not have that > knowledge.
It's worse than that - if you have other Javascript applications loaded (such as, for example, the rather nice Yahoo! widgets photoframe) then you get terrible visual artifacts - the panorama window flashes on and off, alternating with your other Javascript-driven display. I find this to be even more annoying (and rather worse design) than any of the ghastly flash-driven websites people often complain of. I agree with Shel - it's technology for its own sake. And not only that - it's not even all that good from a technological standpoint.
