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Wow! What a great facility. I stumbled upon PanOye on http://www.allmyfaves.com/blog/ and decided to check it out. I love it.

Here is my setup and usage feedback:

(1) Setting up a 360 pan was straight-forward, although it took a while to zoom the map and find my location.

(2) Setting up a partial pan was confusing, although I did finally figure it out. It kept telling me that my view was less than 60 degrees. I finally figured out that, on the first setup page, you select the position of the *camera*, and on the second page, the positions of the ends of the photo. Perhaps an explanation of the three points might help, explicitly referencing that one should zoom close and select the exact camera location.

(3) The "iframe" snippet works better than the "latest_panoramas_widget_js" snippet because the latter triggers security warnings on users' browsers, and many users will be afraid to allow the installation of an active-x or other control.

(4) At this stage in the beta, the 360 pan includes distances to other locations above the image, whereas the partial pan has the title of the photo above the image. I would love to see an option to select one or the other, or none (just the image alone).

All in all, PanOye is a wonderful concept, and well implemented, and I am sure that it will become quite popular.

- David D.

Thanx David for your feedback!

About the point (2) - I know, partial panoramas are harder than 360 ones to orientate. In the next upgrade of the site I hope this issue will be solved...

(3) Yep, but iframe is problematic because I don't know the right dimensions for your latest 5-6 panoramas. With iframe - you would have to scroll it up-down ;(

Also, there is no active-x control, it is all plain Javascript. What browser are you using - I suppose IE7 ?

(4) Partial panoramas also have clouds with links to neighbour panoramas if there are any panoramas in that direction.

Anyway, thank you very much for your comments, I'll see what can be done about the orientation of partial panoramas and iframe widgets for latest panoramas.

Cheers,
TK

re: point (3) -- Yep, I have IE 7 under Vista Home Premium. Microsoft's latest calls all applets an "ActiveX". I suppose they do not want to use the "Java" word in public.

Unless it is McAfee that is doing it??

Don't know... :( I'll have to investigate...