Summary - the technology isn't new, but they've made it trivially easy for a developer to do things that would otherwise take a lot of work, e.g. build complex collections of images across a wide variety of resolutions, add custom events and controls within a multiscale image, etc.
I stumbled across this on SourceForge a while ago: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/cojojion/
They never released anything, but the code runs and it does a pretty good job. Uses genetic algorithms.
I think that question misses the point. The point is that there _are_ millions of developers who _do_ use.NET. Many of them are interested in Linux as well. Mono on an Live CD could get some of these millions of developers starting to develop against Linux as well as Windows. Isn't that good?
It'd be nice if there was a Knoppix/Morphix variant with Mono. I know, I know, Mono is evil or something, but it could expand number of crossover developers who code.NET at work and want to get started with Linux in their spare time. If you're already reading and writing.DOC's, it seems like a logical step...
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Here's my comparison of Deep Zoom to existing quadtree based zooming technologies like Google Maps, Zoomify, etc. http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2008/03/21/why-silverlight-2-deep-zoom-really-is-something-new.aspx
Summary - the technology isn't new, but they've made it trivially easy for a developer to do things that would otherwise take a lot of work, e.g. build complex collections of images across a wide variety of resolutions, add custom events and controls within a multiscale image, etc.
I stumbled across this on SourceForge a while ago: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/cojojion/ They never released anything, but the code runs and it does a pretty good job. Uses genetic algorithms.
I think that question misses the point. The point is that there _are_ millions of developers who _do_ use .NET. Many of them are interested in Linux as well. Mono on an Live CD could get some of these millions of developers starting to develop against Linux as well as Windows. Isn't that good?
It'd be nice if there was a Knoppix/Morphix variant with Mono. I know, I know, Mono is evil or something, but it could expand number of crossover developers who code .NET at work and want to get started with Linux in their spare time. If you're already reading and writing .DOC's, it seems like a logical step...