I <b>totally </b>agree with your statements...<br><br>and I am not about to embed OpenLayers in a flash component myself for production use..<br><br>I am, however, still interested in my question from a technology standpoint and just plain curiosity.<br>
<br>Thank you,<br><br>Alessandro Ferrucci<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 3:20 AM, Andreas Neumann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a.neumann@carto.net">a.neumann@carto.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
<br>
I personally stay away from Flash and hope that the OpenLayers
project does, too.<br>
<br>
Flash requires a plugin. Many government organizations, including my
own employer, do not install browser plugins - however, they have
modern browsers installed. The claim that Adobe Flash has an install
base of >90% is simply wrong, esp. with mobile devices. Flash
remains a black box (binary format), with bad integration in the
browser. Most of the browser crashes, and sometimes also operating
system crashes, can be tracked back to Flash.<br>
<br>
Flash had always bad support on the Linux platform, especially on
64bit. Many mobile devices do not support flash for obvious reasons.
There are signs that the Flash install base will erode away during
the coming years.<br>
<br>
On the other hand native graphics support in browsers (SVG, Canvas,
WebGL, CSS) and other app-support (web storage, HTML5 forms, better
javascript performance, etc.) is improving continuously, as a native
browser technology.<br>
<br>
Flash is also in control of a single company that has profit
maximization and monopoly as its goal, not the prosperity of the web
ecosystem.<br>
<br>
All these arguments that OpenLayers should not support the Flash
platform, in my opinion.<br>
<br>
Andreas<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 3/12/11 12:54 AM, Alessandro Ferrucci wrote:
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i stumbled upon this website.<br clear="all">
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<a href="http://peoplesmap.com/Map.aspx" target="_blank">http://peoplesmap.com/Map.aspx</a><br>
<br>
the map component is a flash component but I see that in the
source code they do create an OpenLayers map... not sure if the
openlayers map is embedded in the flash component though... <br>
<br>
is that what they are doing here?<br>
<br>
if not, does anyone know if it's possible to embed an OpenLayers
map in flash (or flex) and have flash interact with the javascript
in OpenLayers through ExternalInterface or something?<br>
<br>
Thank you<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Signed,<br>
Alessandro Ferrucci<br>
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