File this under the ‘we don’t need no steenking flash’ category, err, which I don’t actually have 😉 Anyway, check out this excellent isometric map of Washington DC. Someone posted a link to it in today’s University Web Administrator’s digest. This an awesome alternative to the too often used flash-based university maps that have popped up in the past couple if years. Javascript and html, and an art style that evokes simcity. Me likes! Note that it’s basically broken in Safari on OSX, use firefox or your favorite flavor of mozilla on a mac, ie also works fine on the PC.
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Ah, but this could have worked in ALL browsers if it was Flash, and would have reached 98+% of users 😉
Could also have avoided the multiple pop-up windows which we all love, but then again, it is a nice application of javascript/css (not that the end user cares about such things, they just want a good experience).
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Yeah, truth be told I have nothing against well implemented flash campus maps (and usually they’re more feature rich than this javascipt/css one), the problem is, many of them are not well implemented, especially in that they fail to take into account the average high school computer, which is old and slow and likely to be sharing a 128k link to the net with all the other slow high school computers.
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