[Mapserver-users] "SUM: DHTML Navigation Tools for MapScript"

[m.spring at gmx.de]

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Hi list,
up to now just listening to this thread was very interesting

"Steve Lime" <steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us> writes:
> One thing I'd like to bring up is that I'd like to see applets and DHTML
> to both be considered here. Contrary to public opinion I don't think
> applets are dead, nor is the technology that drives things like jbox or
> rosa (LiveConnect). When LiveConnect support becomes widespread again
> (IE supports it and that 90% of the market) I for one would like to roll
> out dhmtl or java versions. It may be that long term applets hold more
> promise. I'd really like to see a common API that would allow you to
> access events in either java or dhtml. Things like coordinate, layer,
> .....
> available to the page. I would suggest using the base MapServer CGI
> syntax (which already handles some ROSA nuances) as the communication
> API with oportunities to extent it of course.

- From my point of view a common API on the lowest agreeable level and
thus having the possibility to divert to a pure
server-side-no-active-components map would be incredibly usefult.

In the environment I am developing my maps for we still have a big
number of NS 4.7 users in the administration of the city of Munich,
and as they are behind a firewall the cannot use LiveConnect.

So the discrepancy between a good looking and easy going active GUI
for the maps and a fully functional interface without any active
components kept me busy for a really long time - in the end I switched
to the latter one, mainly for security reasons of the intra
administration users.

But I would be too *very* interested in a common API.

Markus
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