>Going back to the BL demo, I gave up after 10 minutes when
>my win386.swp
>file had grown to about 30mB and my resource meter was
>behaving oddly,
>but then I don't have an ISDN line, just an antique 56k
>modem on ordinary
>old BT.
I perservered out of curiosity and it only took about three minutes
to get to the interactive map. (56k modem, win2k)
Bit dull, I thought, really. :(
It could have been just as effectively done using html a bit of
JavaScript and some image maps.
The map was too small, but the page didn't fit my 800*600 window,
the thumbnails were tiny and the *big* images took too long to
download, with no way of knowing that was what was happening, I
clicked more than once (and got a lot of new windows!)
It was an odd and not at all intuitive interface
Of course the whole premise is that as a user I know where in the
world I want to look for something. I'm not sure that's a fair
assumption to make - the map of the world is unfamiliar to a lot of
people - why not a simple list of places?
I admire the technological achievement but question the wisdom of
the approach. I don't really like Flash, but if ever there was a
good project suited to it's talents this is one, especially as Flash
gives feedback on loading times and it can get somewhere interesting
while loading stuff in the background.
I hope the feedback has been useful, sorry it isn't more positive,
perhaps I'm not representative of the target audience - who are they
exactly? I guess they will know what Or.12551A means when it pops
up over a marker on the map.
Ho Hum.....
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