Yes, it is interesting that most, if not all, website scrolls down, not left. I think we used to have conversation regarding GUI quite some time ago.

Looking at the video, I notice it was awesome - you can zoom into a hex editor!!! Wow, zoom more than that and I'll guess they'll show the 10 bit's of it.

Still, I think it will not replace today GUI just yet, but I think it will serve certain purpose.

There was one project that I remember, called Java Zoomable Interface (Jazz), by Ben Bederson of University of Maryland way back in 1999/2000. One might be able to find pointers to it on Google.

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=354754
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/jazz/

Regards,
Ulhas

Quote: Original post by FableFox
Looking at the video, I notice it was awesome - you can zoom into a hex editor!!! Wow, zoom more than that and I'll guess they'll show the 10 bit's of it.

If you think that is cool, then here's

">one better.

Quote: Original post by XTAL256
From the video, it looks like Seadragon only has one level of recursion (for lack of a better term). In other words, you can't zoom in recursively on an infinite level of windows/items. You can only zoom in on a single, large window, much like Google Earth or the iPhone's browser.

Ok, maybe I don't get that right, but... the presenter went from the top view that showed many documents into a digital issue of The Guardian, zoomed into a page, zoomed into an ad at the the bottom right corner within that page, and then zoomed further into that car's technical specifications. To me, that looked quite impressive, to be honest.

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Quote: Original post by FableFox
Looking at the video, I notice it was awesome - you can zoom into a hex editor!!! Wow, zoom more than that and I'll guess they'll show the 10 bit's of it.

If you think that is cool, then here's

">one better.

That's so cool!