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Re: 360Cities.net
Pat Swovelin 2010-Feb-12 10:49:00
On 2/12/2010 1:19 AM, prague's hamster got loose on the keyboard and
typed ...:
> Your answer is really melodramatic.
>
> Is it really so bad? ("giant step backwards" i think is really making
> a mountain out of a mole hill)
Actually it isn't melodramatic, it *is* a giant step backwards. It's
the dumbing down of the Internet to meet the intellectual level of the
user instead of bringing their intellectual level up.
> Think of "normal" users. clicking and dragging using the "hand"
> cursor, I think, is definitely more intuitive.
Think of dragging the slider to control the view of *any* browser
viewport ever invented or any document that needs to be repositioned.
To go down the page you drag the slider down. To go up the page you
drag the slider up. To move a pano right you drag right, to move left
you drag left. Dragging in the opposite direction is *totally* unintuitive.
> the ease of use, and level of frustration MUST be taken into account.
>
> Taking that into account, is the "hand" cursor really so bad?
Bryant's point isn't the hand cursor, his point is the way the pano is
controlled and Google's way is *not* intuitive. I spoke to someone
yesterday who was asked to submit a template for panos for a large real
estate firm and he showed it to them with the correct control method
(i.e., what everyone on the planet except Google uses) and they said
"his way was much better" but could he do it like Google because that's
what people expect.
Google has lowered the expectations of an entire planet.
> I'm not stating my opinion - I'm honestly wondering. I don't know the
> answer of what is "better"
>
> Jeffrey
>
>
> --- In #removed#, "bryant_arnett" <mail3@...> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> I disagree that this is the most technologically wonderful way
>> possible. The image viewing navigation in Google Earth is terrible.
>> Dragging the little hand around, completely opposite of the way we
>> normally view VR images in the rest of the world, is a giant step
>> backwards for the world of VR photography. Why does Google Earth
>> display VR images this way? It's so bad that I never use the feature,
>> except occasionally the "street view" mode if I am really looking for
>> a location in the map. When it comes to viewing images in the
>> 360Cities database, I would never use this terrible interface. That's
>> just my opinion.
>>
>> ``````Bryant
Pat Swovelin
Cool Guy @ Large