[Mapserver-users] New Technology

[Kieran J. Ames]

It crashed my Netscape 4.76 as well.
Kieran

Jon Shorie wrote:

> On Friday 23 May 2003 12:17, Dave McIlhagga wrote:
> > MapServer Users,
> >
> > Leading up to the MapServer User Meeting in Minnesota, I'd like to take
> > a moment to introduce some brand new technology to the community that we
> > have been working on over the past 9 months, and are preparing for
> > release (open source of course!) at the beginning of June.
> >
> > Chameleon is PHP & MapServer based technology that allows for the
> > deployment of web mapping applications through the simple use of
> > "Widgets" which are HTML-like tags that identify through a series of
> > parameters the specific application behaviour for a given widget.  So
> > for instance if you try the URL I've included below, you'll see this
> > application includes map, keymap, fullextent, zoomin, zoomout, scalebar
> > and measure widgets plus several others.  This only represents a small
> > subset of the widgets that will be available in the initial release of
> > Chameleon.  In addition, an API will be available for the development of
> > new PHP widgets that can be developed for Chameleon.
> >
> > For us this is the most exciting technology that we feel we will be
> > releasing since the original PHP/MapScript was released to the MapServer
> > community three years ago.  Chameleon runs on MapServer 4.0 with both
> > being released prior to the MapServer User Meeting in Minnesota.  Look
> > for much more information on Chameleon in the upcoming weeks.
> >
> > If you'd like to try out an application of Chameleon, here's an
> > application showing the location of the upcoming MapServer User Meeting
> > in Minnesota:
> >
> > http://www.mapsherpa.com/mum/
> >
> > We are very keen to get feedback on how this works in a variety of
> > browsers and operating systems.  We have done a good degree of testing
> > in many common environments, but I'm sure there will be quirks in others
> > so please let us know if you have any trouble.
> >
> > I'll send a follow-on note to the community when Chameleon 1.0 will be
> > available to the community.  One final note -- we would like to
> > acknowledge the funding support provided by GeoConnections of Natural
> > Resources Canada for the development of Chameleon that is the base for
> > their Configurable Web Mapping Client Component (CWC2) service.  You
> > will be hearing much more about this at the MapServer User Meeting.
> >
> > Enjoy!
> >
> > Dave
> The site on the link does not seem to work well at all with konqueror.
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