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

[Jens Frank]

2009/4/8 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab at gmail.com>

> > 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?
>

This is no OpenLayers specific issue, it's just how most web browsers work,
and a well known workaround for it.

Regards,

jens
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