> > and employs pyramidal tiling for efficiency > > \me ... time to hit Wikipedia :) It involves scaling an image to various resolutions, and partitioning them into fixed-size tiles. It's roughly the same technique used by Google Maps/Earth.
> It is very cool, but I would inject a note of caution here: I'd a hate a zui > to become a case of "hunt-the-zoom." A link is a link. They already work very > well, click and it goes to the page. > I find the notion of minute "hot" areas to be a little obscure -- Quick! Zoom > into the last full-stop, it's a whole word in there! > What I would enjoy is when you click a link - it zooms into the sub-page so > you get a feeling of traversal. Back buttons would zoom out again. Add to that > a kind of birds'-eye view of one's history (like a thumbnails node-graph of > some kind) and it would be perfect! Sure, it was just a quick mockup of a potential application. A proper implementation would probably have more sophisticated features such as that. > This aspect reminds me of the Red Dwarf episode "Back to Reality", in > which Rimmer is criticised for not finding information contained in a > microdot hidden in the dot on the 'i' of his name on a swimming > certificate. Haha, true. > ZUIs are useful for particular types of data - images & mapping > especially - but I'd hate to have to navigate my desktop using its > approach. Obviously there will be some applications that suit more traditional GUIs better than ZUIs, just like there's plenty of applications more suited to the command-line than a GUI. After all, things such as the web and the desktop metaphor came into being long before ZUIs. On Dec 16, 1:09 pm, alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Donn <donn.in...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I find the notion of minute "hot" areas to be a little obscure -- Quick! > > Zoom > > into the last full-stop, it's a whole word in there! > > This aspect reminds me of the Red Dwarf episode "Back to Reality", in > which Rimmer is criticised for not finding information contained in a > microdot hidden in the dot on the 'i' of his name on a swimming > certificate. > > ZUIs are useful for particular types of data - images & mapping > especially - but I'd hate to have to navigate my desktop using its > approach. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list