[OpenLayers-Users] Pros and cons of the various renderers? (SVG, SVG2, Canvas)

[Andreas Hocevar]

Hi,

SVG2 is deprecated and no longer maintained. Canvas is initially fast
for rendering many vertices, but it is not good if you don't do many
interactive symbolizer changes (e.g. feature selection with visual
feedback) on layers with tons of features, because it has to redraw
the whole viewport for every such change. SVG supports a few more
symbolizer properties than Canvas, but Canvas is catching up.

Andreas.

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Phil Scadden <p.scadden at gns.cri.nz> wrote:
> I recently found there was issue on the 180 line with the SVG renderer
> but Canvas and SVG2 were okay. What is the preferred renderer choices?
> What are the pros and cons of each?
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