Il 19:53, mercoledì 7 marzo 2007, Armin Burger ha scritto:
> It is for sure not straightforward and requires sound knowledge of
> Javascript. I would like it as well as alternative rendering possibility
> but it would need quite a lot of efforts.

I've thought about it also, it would be a great improvement.

One problem could be the server load, all the smooth panning solutions I've 
seen so far, are based on "static" tiles saved on the server, the scaling is 
not continuous as in pmapper but at fixed steps, and the tiles (for all 
available layers) are prepared and cached on the server.

One of the reasons why openlayers, gmap or ka-map are so fast in switching 
layers on-off or changing layer order or tranparency is because all this 
stuff happens on the client.

I feel that supporting this kind of systems in p.mapper would not be a trivial 
task.

BTW a proof-of-concept could maybe be realized just by downloading in the 
background adjacent 8 images and repeating the process at each pan move (pay 
attention to potential memory leaks).

Regards.
-- 
Alessandro Pasotti
itOpen - "Open Solutions for the Net Age"
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