[Atomos-discuss] That's the way the money goes; pop goes the weasel.

[Bryan E. <for...@gm...>]

Scott:
> Nice clean code.  I love it, and the dock in particular.  Has me
> wondering if a version could be implemented for the AOS desktop.
> Along the lines of an applet maybe?

Perhaps, but note that performance decreases dramatically with a greater
number of icons. There's little that can be done about it; it's because of
the way resizes are done in JavaScript under a browser (ie: somewhat
inefficiently).  I mean, one could theoretically write Warcraft in
Javascript.  All the components to do so are there and available (ie: sprite
placement and control), but (and I know this from experience; I tried.  Had
a good pathfinder when it was just two peons and a few rectangular barriers.
) when you get up to sheer numbers of stuff (at least 256 just for a 16x16
viewport), performance drops down the tube, into the septic tank, and keeps
on racing down until suddenly bursting out of the ocean just off the coast
of Australia.
-- 
Bryan Elliott
for...@gm...
http://www.fordi.org