[OpenLayers-Users] OpenLayers Overview for non specialist audience

[Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas]

On 25 August 2012 01:37, Diego M. <oo_O2_oo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> *Jorge Sanz*
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> Thank you so much! the presentation is great!! it is what i really need. of
> course i translated it to english
> but would you please explain silde 13-14 a little bit more :
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> ¿qué no hace/es Open Layers?
> no es una biblioteca generalista de widgets
> ExtJS, GWT, etc
> no lee ni escribe en tu sistema
> componentes en servidor
> no hace peticiones XML fuera de tu sistema
> web proxy
>

Sure:

What Open Layers is not? What Open Layers doesn't do?

-- It is not a generic widget component library. So you have to use
ExtJS/GWT/jQueryUI...
-- It doest't read files on your system. So you have to create some
kind of reflector to upload a file to your server and then serve it to
your web app if you need it. In fact with HTML5 that's not true
anymore as a colleague showcased[1]
--It can't do XML requests outside your domain, yo need a web proxy
(like proxy.cgi). That's not exactly correct but most of the time is
true


As I said the slides are more than 2 years old so you maybe will find
other facts more interesting to share.

Best


[1] http://www.prodevelop.es/es/blog/11/12/11/rendering-local-shapefiles-html5

-- 
Jorge Sanz
http://es.osgeo.org