[Maps-l] What's being done and what needs doing?

[Aude]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Jens Frank <jens.l.frank at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> >> As for where to have the OpenLayers code, I would like to have our own
> >> copy which we can keep up-to-date as possible.  It would not be good to
> >> reference the OpenLayers.js directly from OpenLayers or OSM, since those
> >> will get changed as others see fit.  It could be that some change will
> break
> >> our extension.  When we do update our copy of OpenLayers.js, we can test
> it
> >> with our extension and make sure everything is okay.
> >
> > The SlippyMap extension requires a small change to the original
> OpenLayers
> > code. At the very end of the file, it sets a variable to "true", so that
> the
> > JavaScript can be loaded asynchronously. The part of the JavaScript that
> > creates the map polls for these variables. If they are not yet set, the
> > function calls itself using alarm() and a ~0.5s delay. Without this hack,
> > the loading of the page would stall at the map in many browsers when
> using
> > slow links or slow CPUs
>
> Is this a bug the OpenLayers developers know about and might be fixed
> in a future version of OpenLayers itself?


I can take a look at this, when I work on integrating changes.  I'm also
interested in submitting any changes to OpenLayers to make it work better
and accommodate things we want to do, while making our improvements
available to others.

-Kate



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