Re: Level comment management tool

[Jarno Elonen]

> The question is wheter there's such a site which offers us PHP support
> on the server.

Seul.org apparently does since http://www.seul.org/index.php works.
Could someone ask them if they also have ImageMagick installed? The level 
viewer needs it for rotating the layers.

> Well, that just showed me that my concern regarding graphics was right.
> It was surely impressive to see the level render itself slowly, first
> the background, then the image placeholders, finally unfolding into the
> full view. Since I've not that slow a connection, it would be wise to
> use at least much smaller graphics, probably only a thumbnail for
> overview and a larger one in the level view.

Actually, while the level is rather wide and tall, the combined data size of 
the HTML page and the image layers is just about 150 KB. Also, the savings 
are relatively better for larger levels because they typically use the same 
elements extensively and the browser only has to load an image once after 
which it's in the cache. That fact that the level shows up slowly is more due 
to slow xml processing than download time. Caching the resulting HTML or 
writing custom XML parsing routines instead of using PHPXpath would speed the 
viewer up.

Unfortunately, this technique can't currently produce thumbnails. It's not 
utterly impossible though, so I'll probably look into it in the near future.

- Jarno