Hi, On Sunday 12 February 2006 17:30, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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They used flash instead of bitmaps image just as a way to create difficulties to people wanting to get the real photo instead of an screen capture, or wanting to bypass the print button (and thus not printing their commercials). Just as creating a picture composed of 16 tiles is another technique to reach the same goal.
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. 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.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Randall "the contrarian" Schuzl