I store my VRs as equirects, so I can transform them
into cubes, stripes, synusoidals or whatever the taste of the day is.
Yeah, that's what I do as well. It seemed to be the best storage
format for deployment flexibility. I store high resolution equirects
so I can easily downsize and repurpose panos.
You can certainly author your pano and export it to other formats &
then offer multiple choices to your user/viewer -- though my
thinking
is that this only confuses most people;
agree.
a marginally better approach is to pursue browser/app "sniffing" to
see what a user has installed, and then deliver the pano to them
in a
specific format.
not marginally. Definitely superior.
In addition to the extra work involved, doesn't that also mean extra
storage? (which of course isn't free) I'm trying to decide on a
single Web deployment format. I'm leaning toward QT but might look
more closely at ptviewer.
QT can't do ADR like Shockwave does. From a CMS perspective...
What is ADR and CMS?
I can easily add hotspot
shapes, positioning, URLs and all sort of overlays to Java/ptviewer
and
Shockwave/SPi-V).
I didn't know hotspots could be added to ptviewer panos. Have any
URLs handy which discuss how to do that?
I find it easier to handle consistency in VRs across plug ins,
than consistency in browsers and platforms with JavaScript or CSS.
Yes, it can be quite challenging at times, and I'm not even trying to
cater to every browser out there. Basically, I test on IE 6+,
Firefox, and Netscape on Windows, and on Safari, Opera, Firefox, and
OmniWeb on Mac. If other browsers happen to be [reasonably]
standards-compliant and work, great; but I don't have to time to
support (let alone test) every browser out there.
I don't like it when pano sites force the browser window to full
screen and commandeer my display. Nor do I care for all the context
switching that results from the entire Web page reloading to display
a new pano. I really wanted the ability to "replace" an existing
pano with a new one inside the page. I gave up trying to manipulate
the QT plugin via JS in favor of using AJAX to load a new pano in
only a portion of the page. It works quite well on the browsers tested.
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Steve Schacht
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