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Hi folks,<br>
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A few weeks ago I suggested in a thread about PDF support that
Mapserver could perhaps be made to support the new "Canvas" tag. There
were no reactions to this, so I don't know if this suggestion is
viable/advisable/practicable, or just downright stupid. Can anyone
comment? <br>
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(from
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-dev/2009-January/008055.html">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-dev/2009-January/008055.html</a>)<br>
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I am wondering if MapServer support for the "Canvas" tag could do what
Steve suggests in a more simple way. Originally, only Safari, Opera and
Firefox supported this tag to allow (simple) 2D drawing, but recently a
surprisingly simple Javascript interface for IE has become available,
translating Canvas command to native IE VRML commands. It requires just
one single script tag in the web page.<br>
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See the tutorial at the Mozilla site at:
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Canvas_tutorial">https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Canvas_tutorial</a><br>
and the IE interface (from the Google stables) at:
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/">http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/</a><br>
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This is something I have long been looking for. The graphics are very
simple, so the functionality is nothing like PDF or SVG, but I
could imagine that a driver for MapServer could fulfill many needs. I
can use it already by letting Mapserver generate raw coordinates and
catching them with some sort of Ajax, but a separate driver would be
very neat of course.<br>
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How about it?<br>
<br>
Jan<br>
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