-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2006-02-12 at 17:40 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Actually, there are technologically valid reasons to tile maps served in the manner of Google Local or A9.com Maps. Consider, e.g., enabling the user to pan the map.
Yes, you are right in that. For continuous panning, that is. The one I saw in flash admitted limited panning and zoming. I'm thinking. I understand that The Gimp is scriptable. It should be possible then to feed the names of the sixteen tiles to an script in gimp that would join then automatically. But I don't know how the gimp handles that, I haven't looked into it. It is possible that there exists out there software for joining tiles more or less automatically: I have hand joined scanned pages with overlap, and it is a pain.
In fact, all the animation effects and background loading capabilities in Flash are also enticing to producers of various on-line interactive applications. Thankfully, browser technologies are rapidly closing the gap and hopefully soon close solutions like Flash will not be necessary for most Web-based interactive applications.
I think that flash will remain interesting for sites trying to obfuscate things. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFD8TMRtTMYHG2NR9URAl+8AKCNljPXktEeHzQYVl/4mWZXWPXIcACfag48 IjJBoKegB/m5dGr5h2/Ncog= =zYOn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----