My guess - <br><br>a) there aren't many information sets that are difficult enough to present in standard ways AND benefit from this type of presentation <br>b) there haven't been enough of (a) with the programmers/money/willingness to try something novel
<br>c) some concern over limiting the audience for the info, because it requires Flash or some other plug-in. <span style="font-style: italic;">Potentially</span> a high bar in terms of browser capability, internet connection, etc. Or because Flash isn't open-source.
<br><br>To get around (c), I'd take this implementation as a spec for the desired interaction behavior and see if it can be done in any other more acceptable technology, OR if it can be primarily Flash-based, but also degrade to something acceptable for older browsers.
<br><br>No reason the EOL project can't make a splash with something as exciting as this.<br><br>-R. <br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Pyle</b> <<a href="mailto:deepreef@bishopmuseum.org">
deepreef@bishopmuseum.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> As Rod suggested, this is pretty old news.
<br><br>This begs the question: has this style of user-interface failed to catch on<br>more widely because of:<br><br>1) Technological limitations;<br>2) Insufficient creativity and inspiration; or<br>3) Insufficient usability?
<br><br>I'm tempted to eliminate #3 on the grounds that I don't think this style of<br>UI has been widespread enough to have been subjected to, and then failed,<br>some sort of usability meta-experiment.<br><br>This is not to say that it won't ultimately fail such a meta-experiment --
<br>just that it hasn't really had a chance to fail it yet.<br><br>Rich<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>tdwg mailing list<br><a href="mailto:tdwg@lists.tdwg.org">tdwg@lists.tdwg.org</a><br>
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