[OpenLayers-Users] OpenLayers with liter Window Dressing (lightwindow)

[Lance Dyas]

Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:44:42PM -0500, Lance Dyas wrote:
>   
>> I have been able to get OpenLayers to work with lightwindow, which is 
>> based on prototype.js
>> however ...  this is one of the heaviest libraries... others based on
>> jQuery dont work due to incompatibilities of OL: with jquery..
>> has anyone found a lighter solution which works with OpenLayers?
>>     
>
> jQuery and OpenLayers can work fine together: it just requires a bit of
> effort 
well thats not quite my definition of fine... if you  override JQueries 
$ then you have to track
back whether it will still work with some library X derived of JQuery... 
and if not then
you have to give JQuery an alternative $ (which JQuery has automated)
and modify the other library to use...yes a little effort 
> (and work on fixing this is a "Patches welcome" kind of deal.)
>   
I saw the code where openlayers checks for the existance of the other $ 
definition... it didnt look
like there was any obvious reason it didnt work...(guess an obvious 
reason would already be fixed)
> http://faq.openlayers.org/misc/why-doesnt-openlayers-work-with-jquery/
>
> Regards,
>