Re: [Troll] Level Web Pages

["Kenneth W. Flynn" <flynnk@astro.umd.edu>]

At 08:08 PM 5/25/00 -0400, you wrote:
>[Zooming Java Applet]
>At present I'm not too inclined to write up a program to automactically
>generate images so don't bother writing up the applet.  I'm still not
>sure what/how it should show information.  Ideally you'd have the notes
>that point out "this room has key", "big nasty monster", etc.  Obviously
>you could simply leave out the details on the "overview" and only display
>them on individual room pages.  I don't even know how you would determine
>what is important.

Some sort of configuration file for the applet w/ zoom levels?  Let me know 
if you work this out; give me the specs for what you want, and I can try 
and whip something together.

> > Javascript?  How?
>
>Javascript could detect the browser window size and load the best fit
>image.  Other than that it wouldn't help much.  You might want that
>with a Java applet as well so that it fills the browser window.

Can detect the size of the applet from within the applet, so that's a 
better way of doing it.  :)

Kenn

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Kenneth W. Flynn              | Graduate Fellow
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