Re: FW: [MacPerl] chineese scroll

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 06:10:07PM -0700, Nicholas G. Thornton wrote:
> As far as scanning the scroll we already have the pictures available;
> just not a good way to view them. the biggest downside to having one
> image being viewed through a web browser is that the files are *huge*.
> I have grave doubts about the majority of people having enough memory
> to open an entire file at once. Which brought me around to the thought
> of using perl to cut out a section of the image and send it to you.
>
> Perhaps a combination of the two (imagemap and cgi)? The cgi to scroll
> you along, the image map to zoom in.
>

Sounds like what all the map sites do; you can move around by clicking on
directional buttons or the image, and you can zoom in or out.  See MapBlast
and MapQuest, for example.


Ronald

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