Little Quicksilver Usability updates.

So, now that there is an adjustable legend, I have added a real legend to better explain what the colors mean, and hidden the adjustable bit.

Otherwise, I spent the rest of the day figuring out a way for the app to save the users selected zoom level. That way if they just changed the dates or the search condition, but were zoomed in on a particularly tiny zip3 or zip5, the app would "remember" the last zoom level rather than forcing the user to zoom in from the default again.

Otherwise, I have been talking with Brian about ways to make the application faster. One is to cache averages and standard deviations... and the other is to have a servlet that returns polygon details and eval the polygon additions in a loop eval style. Hopefully this will allow IE users relief from the "This script is taking a long time" error.

adjusting legend

I moved a most of the logic of the legend adjustment and added much more error checking today.

Tomorrow I am going to try and get a more colorful legend, play with the placement, get click-through from the info panels (so you can click an IN link in the popup window and get it to reload focusing on IN) and then brainstorm with Brian for new search types and speedy loading.