Sleepiness in Seattle » firefox http://stanblog.jojoyao.com Stanley's Chat on the Technology and Business Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:29:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Live Maps launches new version with Firefox support for 3D http://stanblog.jojoyao.com/2007/04/live-maps-launches-new-version-with-firefox-support-for-3d/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=live-maps-launches-new-version-with-firefox-support-for-3d http://stanblog.jojoyao.com/2007/04/live-maps-launches-new-version-with-firefox-support-for-3d/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:35:28 +0000 Stanley Yao http://stanblog.jojoyao.com/newblog/?p=33

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A new major revision of Live Maps was released today, with a number of new features and enhancements. At the top of the list is Firefox (v 1.5 or later) support for 3D mapping. In addition, memory management and cache performance has been improved for the IE version. 3D support is now also included for the Space Navigator, a 3D controller made by 3dConnexion, a Logitech company.

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This release really has a few very desired new features. Not being compatible with Firefox is a popular complaint about Microsoft’s web services products. This is a good answer. Hopefully, the browser compatibility issues could be addressed at the very beginning of the future new product release, so that the public image of being IE-biased can be wiped off and gain more traction over the net.

This new release also enables inserting maps and driving directions into the emails and meeting appointments created in outlook. It is even considerate to block the driving time for the meeting too.

A feature that I have been longing for is the organization of scratch pad. However, still doesn’t seem easy to move the push pins over to a different collection.

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