[MapQuery] Directory layout + external libs in Git repo

[Anne Blankert]

Hello All,

About allowing offline work: then there should also be a data directory
for offline maps?
My idea was that DEMO's could have an online reference, WORK files not
necessarily.
In a train it will also be difficult to download the libs for local use.
In case you have taken the trouble of downloading the libs before
entering the train, you could also consider changing the reference to
the offline libs in the demos?

Somewhere in the future there should be a mapquery  website that
includes the demo's online. Once those are available, there would be no
need for downloaded demo's that work out of the box.

Another thing:
Some of the widgets to be will probably need (default) icons or other
images. Where will these be stored?

Anne

On 11/12/2010 2:26 PM, Volker Mische wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 11/12/2010 12:29 PM, Anne Blankert wrote:
>>  In the newly proposed and improved directory layout, the demo's now
>> reference external libs like <script src="../lib/...></script>
>> I believe it is a good thing if demo's work out of the box, no
>> additional readme's, install.txt or conversions of .sh to .bat,
>> downloads etc.
>>
>> Is there a good reason for the demo's not to reference online libraries?
>>
>> So instead of:
>>   <script src="../lib/openlayers/OpenLayers.js"
>> type="text/javascript"></script>
>>   <script src="../lib/jquery/jquery-1.4.3.js"
>> type="text/javascript"></script>
>>   <script src="../lib/jquery/ui/jquery-ui.js"
>> type="text/javascript"></script>
>>
>> Maybe use:
>> <script type="text/javascript"
>> src="http://openlayers.org/api/2.10/OpenLayers.js"></script>
>> <script type="text/javascript"
>> src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
>> <script type="text/javascript"
>> src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.6/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
>>
>> ?
>>
>> From the version numbers in the path names to the libs, users can see
>> with wich version of the external libs MapQuery is supposed to work.
>>
>> Anne
>>
> I'm not sure about it. I know, often demos need an internet connection
> (e.g. for a WMS), though I'd like to get them work offline as well. We
> could use static files as baselayer (as TMS e.g.) and have them work
> completely offline.
>
> I had the situation that I wanted to do some MapQuery/OpenLayers coding
> in the train, an the best resource are the demos. But without internet
> they are not that useful.
>
> Therefore I prefer the bundle version (and not referencing the JS libs
> through the web). You only need to download it once and you are set.
>
> Cheers,
>   Volker


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