My wife and I have been experimenting with animated hotspots to get some "life" into a panorama. Animated frames are tiled into a single "filmstrip-like" image and a crop is dynamically applied, pretty much like the animated hotspot example (but a bit more advanced):
http://files.fieldofview.com/temp/blinkie
Here is one of the animation tiles:
http://files.fieldofview.com/temp/blinkie/rose_01.jpg
As you can see this is quite a large image. The technique works both in flash and html5 (in contrast with either animated gifs or video hotspots) but I fully expected the panorama with these added images to run out of memory and crash on my (ageing) iphone 4. It would have with previous versions of krpano, but krpano 1.17 does not crash! Instead it applies downscaling to the hotspot-imagery, which is awesome. Unfortunately it does not *quite* work; on my iphone 4, I some of the animated hotspots show as a "matrix" of frames. It looks as-if the scale of the image is not taken into account when applying the crop.
TL;DR: krpano 1.17 scales down graphics when it is running out of memory (which is awesome), but when applying a crop this scale is not taken into account.
We ended up creating a smaller version of the animations for device="mobile", circumventing the problem (at least for my iphone) while at the same time lowering the bandwidth:
http://weeklyworld.skizzie.nl/world/2013/34/…rose-garden-ink
This version also has improved animation etc.