Comments on: Car Navigation Map Mashup in Canvas

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:01:03 +0000

What a cool idea.

By: nataxia

nataxia — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:12:51 +0000

Nice work. I wonder if the intended use (somehow increasing your knowledge of a location by providing another perspective) is the best use. The first thing I thought of was building a game using this. But for helping me make sense of a map, the gods-eye, 2d, zoomable view is actually superior.

By: AndiSkater

AndiSkater — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:19:30 +0000

Cool demo. The “same origin policy” is really a shame, because it encumbers the web for security’s sake. I don’t understand, why the user is not asked to permit or forbid this action instead of just making it impossible. There could be a simple dialog asking if i want this web page to use cross-domain data once/forever/… I would do the dame with iframe scripting access, video/audio tag, cross domain XHR,…
Give the users the choice and the developers the possibilities instead of forbidding everything!

By: PhoenixSA

PhoenixSA — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:30:40 +0000

Took a look at this thing .. its nothing special. Its extremely buggy even in Firefox. Its a nice idea though and there is loads of room for improvement