Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 11/18/07 16:44

Mika wrote:

> Just as a point of interest, we chose HTML and j/s as the ability to add
> affiliates' HTML and j/s 'eposters' to shop windows, draw imagemaps around
> shop doors, and regularly update links etc. was much more straightforward if
> using the same language the actual links use.
>
> Also, loading the whole street first using Flash would have been necessary,
> thus taking longer.

No at Flash expert, maybe Travis can offer more precise info, but it is
my understanding that Flash can do sequential loading and that it would
not be necessary to load the whole shabang.

> If you notice at Oxford Street for example, it loads
> each street 1 chunk ahead of where you are walking, and only once you walk
> towards it. This appears seamless, but it is constantly loading and
> unloading image blocks from memory - so it only ever loads what it needs to.
> It's quite efficient and we're quite proud of the j/s code we developed
> which interacts with the Google Maps interface. Getting Google Maps and all
> affiliate links and banners to interact with Flash would *not*, we feel,
> have been 'far better' :) Hope you can agree now we've clarified.

Actually no I have no idea since I am stuck on dialup a webpage of a
*mere* 5-6mb is not quite accessible...

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Take care,

Jonathan
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