PanoTools NG:
Re: Re: Interface experiment
Ken Warner 2009-Jan-13 14:16:10
Thinking about what I usually see when panos are loading --
that cube grid is really not a very useful thing to see as
the first thing. I can imagine a first timer going "HUH!"
And I'm not trying to sell little globes. Don't have a real
strong opinion about it but I'd prefer a little globe or cylinder
that reflects what I'm about to see. You are right that it
wouldn't be much of a download. It could even be a .gif or
some other kind of low res image.
Keith Martin wrote:
> Sometime around 13/1/09 (at 04:55 -0800) Ken Warner said:
>
>
>>You know that little spinning thing that is shown while things are
>>loading? Maybe that should be a spinning globe -- a 3D thumbnail
>>so to speak.
>
>
> Showing a preview globe as the activity indicator seems like a rather
> good suggestion. (I don't know about getting it to stop at the
> initial view; it should stop and go away as soon as possible,
> regardless of where it is in the rotation.) It probably shouldn't
> spin at some mad speed (or even particularly fast at all) or
> recognition of the scene would be minimal.
>
> What is good about this is that it makes good use of the 'dead air'
> time between arriving at a page and seeing enough of the full
> panorama. Kept just to this time, it also doesn't get in the way of
> the final pano display. I think this is quite a useful model to
> consider.
>
> It would require a very small preview image to be downloaded as soon
> as possible when someone visits a pano page, but that could be just a
> dozen or so kilobytes and called straight away by the pano player
> engine.
>
> k
>
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