ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World • Hacker News Board

Re: ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World

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Post by hackuser » Wed, Jul 09, 2014, 6:18 AM UTC

maaku wrote: post #2

> ORBIS is designed for modern browsers and uses technology that works best in Chrome or Safari. This is on latest Firefox. Really? The only truly open browser is not "modern"?

All the other websites work well for me on Firefox. Either I'll have to switch browsers for one site, or switch websites ...

Re: ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World

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Post by tempodox » Wed, Jul 09, 2014, 7:58 AM UTC

Too bad, it doesn't seem to work in Safari. I find what I see incomprehensible and unusable. Some shapes seem to be drawn much too large.

In Chrome, it looks better.

Re: ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World

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Post by elijahmeeks » Wed, Jul 09, 2014, 2:08 PM UTC

tempodox wrote: post #12

Too bad, it doesn't seem to work in Safari. I find what I see incomprehensible and unusable. Some shapes seem to be drawn much too large. In Chrome, it looks better.

I'd love to see a screenshot, if you want to tweet or email me. I never had any problems testing it on Safari.

Re: ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World

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Post by elijahmeeks » Wed, Jul 09, 2014, 2:10 PM UTC

maaku wrote: post #2

> ORBIS is designed for modern browsers and uses technology that works best in Chrome or Safari. This is on latest Firefox. Really? The only truly open browser is not "modern"?

SVG performance on Firefox is abysmal. Even MSIE10/11 handles it much better. Start a petition to get Firefox to handle SVG as well as all the other browsers.