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

[Lance Dyas]

Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 08:46:57AM -0500, Lance Dyas wrote:
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>> Christopher Schmidt wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:44:42PM -0500, Lance Dyas wrote:
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>>>       
>>>> 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 
>>     
>
> Er, yes, I understand that. It's unfortunate that this is the case, but
> it doesn't mean that "jQuery doesn't work with OpenLayers". You just
> need to do "$ = jQuery.noConflict();" 
>   
Which ends up being very handy.... umm will OpenLayers work if you 
actually define the  $ back to JQueries?
I used the "J$  = jQuery.noConflict();"
> Also, I think that any jQuery library which *depends* on '$' is probably
> buggy. (So is any OpenLayers-based library that depends on "$", for the
> record.) But of course that doesn't mean that no library is buggy in
> this way.  *shrug* 
>   
 Yes they do indeed depend on it