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Old November 21st 10, 02:26 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Massive panoramic photo of London

On Nov 21, 2:38*pm, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2010\11\21 01:44, Richard J. wrote:

Basil Jet wrote on 20 November 2010
20:30:42 ...
http://www.360cities.net/london-photo-en.html


Thanks, but I can't stand large photos that make you drag it in the
"wrong" direction, i.e. the opposite way to Google Street View or PDF
files viewed with Adobe Reader. Do others find this totally
counter-intuitive?


Interestingly the arrow keys work the same way as in Google Street View,
and the mouse kind of works the same as the arrow keys, so it's the
mouse operation in Google Street View which is the odd one out, because
it moves the world whereas the others all move you.


Yes, the arrows and mouse in this follow were I am looking, rather
than moving what I am looking at. This seems intuitive to me, given
that the world generally stays where it is while I change where I am
looking.

It's also consistent with scrolling down a document etc. If I scroll
down a document I don't expect the page to move down and let me look
at the top.