It's all Apple's fault...
Actually I like parts of html5 but until we can be transparent between flash and html5 output we are in a bind.
The problem I ran into was having a tour map with almost 100 hotspots, like how do we find the co-ordinates for 100 spots and then attach hot spots to it. Some hotspots call scenes, some call a url, some open a second window and some blend. My solution was to have a flat pano and use the tour-editor to attach the hot spots, but that wouldn't work with the iPad because html5-krpano viewer doesn't do flat pano's.
Now normally I wouldn't care about the iPad but my stats package informs me that 7.92 percent of my viewers used an iPad and 7.59 percent where Android users. So I have to play the html5 game.
The beauty of being able to use the tour-editor is that you can keep changing it WYSIWYG. So what am I to do?
I did find a way to build the tour map so all works but no thanks to krpano, and any future edits will be a nightmare.
At this stage of the tour game, either krpano viewer needs to start supporting flat files or the tour-editor needs to support creating a tour map and hotspots. While on the topic of the tour-editor. I love it BUT...... How about having it automatically save the tour.xml that's being edited. Like how much of a bummer is it to find it over wrote the tour.xml attached to a different project. Come on.. next the hot spot editor is nice, but how about having a little more definition in what the hot spot is to do. Scene, link url, object ???? and then we can fine tune the code afterwards.
I love the flexibility the krpano tools give me and modifying the xml is the way to develop our own style. But the documentation is just to much detail without enough simple how to's. When I asked how to included external xml files the answer was to look at the krpano.xml file. Great, that's all it does is link external xmls, how do we incorporate that into a tour that has included scenes??
I requested help regarding flat pano's and html5 and the reply was a link to the docs, I read them, re-read them and then came back and said I was even more confused, then NOTHING. Okay, what now?
How about a short list of most commonly used statements, and why we need to have NUL and BLEND. There are examples in the forums to do anything, but I'm sorry, I just can't think of the correct three words to use in the search box that will get me on the correct path, let alone answer the question.
Bill