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by daviding 16y ago
Agreed on perf. Lots of optimization to do, plus I could pre-fetch cache a lot smarter too (it off-screen caches x&y but nothing for the zooms which are the most painful). Thanks for trying it. One thing I do when using it to scan many
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by daviding 16y ago
One thing I did consider but haven't thrown in is the idea of what happens when you get to the biggest thumbnail (lowest zoom) and then zoom in again. I was thinking it could take you to a related pages map, with its own zoom levels. Exampl
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by daviding 16y ago
Thank you! Yes, I've got some things to try on overlays as at the moment the top level zoom levels are static pre-generated. What kind of subsections would you like to see? I did render a larger map, but for this test just did '6x6' section
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by daviding 16y ago
I agree (I'm typing this on an iPad now!) but wanted to see how far I could push the web side, mainly because I could get it ready for comments quicker plus not keen on I-dev work (ptr flashbacks etc). I've started adding touch events to th
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by daviding 16y ago
I think I can smooth the zoom, i.e. more like how Google maps resizes when you zoom. The bubble is something I've struggled with, in that I started with just an overlay icon but it got very 'busy', what with all those thumbnails. I'll try a
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by daviding 16y ago
Thanks, I'll take a look - I did play with this a little (snapdragon?) but at the time couldn't find a decent API. The backend is all python, so unsure how Silverlight and managed code will fly.
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by daviding 16y ago
Thanks for that - really appreciated. I've been heads-down getting this working and to be honest lost a bit of perspective on if it's an ok idea or not. Did the zooming in/out work ok?
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by daviding 16y ago
Background: Spent the last couple of weeks working on this weird graphical RSS Reader. Not sure where to take it next, but put it up here for comments and feedback. Any advice, i.e. is it a viable startup idea?
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I've built this. Is it worth pursuing or just mad?(zoomread.com)
17 points by daviding 16y ago|35 comments