<br>* CSS-customizing of controls: some controls support it to a very high degree, others almost don't, since they do massive inline-styling (images, dimensions) via Javascript. Yet there is no clear deprecation warning about those "CSS-denying" controls that are obviously kept for compatibility reasons.<br>
<br>* Popups: all OpenLayers popups look a bit antiquated, I'd love to see new versions.<br><br>* Minifying the OpenLayers library with the python build script can take some time. I replaced jsmin.py with rjsmin.py and saw a 5x speedup (<a href="http://opensource.perlig.de/rjsmin/">http://opensource.perlig.de/rjsmin/</a>). This comes in handy when you decide to build your own minified openlayers version, but forgot some classes to include and thus have to recompile frequently.<br>
<br>* Coordinate Transformations fail silently (i.e. no transformation is performed at al) if the required proj4js definition isn't available. Some warning would be nice.<br><br>regards,<br><br>Franz<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2011/8/5 Sveen Atle Frenvik (Geomatikk IKT) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Atle.Frenvik.Sveen@geomatikk.no">Atle.Frenvik.Sveen@geomatikk.no</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>While I for most of the time enjoy working with OpenLayers, I do have a point that bugs me:<div><br></div><div>The fact that styling of features is complicated, and involves concepts like Style, styleMap and just a key-value object, and can be set on both layers and features, in many ways, makes styling features complex. in addition does the api doc list a Style2 class, which confuses me..</div>
<div><br></div><div>apart from that: personally i am bugged that it took me so long time to discover how versatile til Panel control is, but that is my own fault i recon..</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck with your talk!</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>-Atle</div></font><div class="im"><br><br><br> Marc Jansen <<a href="mailto:jansen@terrestris.de" target="_blank">jansen@terrestris.de</a>> wrote: <br><br><br></div><div class="im">
<div style="word-break:break-all">Hi all,<br><br>for my talk "Common pitfalls for users of OpenLayers" [1] at this years<br>FOSS4G [2] I want to evaluate the parts of OpenLayers where users of the<br>library experience problems.<br>
<br>You would help me -- and the project itself -- a lot if you could answer<br>in this thread and tell me what problems you had working with OpenLayers.<br><br>Please do not hesitate to tell us what has bugged you, what was unclear<br>
or non-intuitive. Provide us with the sall and the big annoyances Of<br>course you are heavily encouraged to provide ways around the pitfalls<br>and possible enhancements.<br><br>I want to identify areas which often cause problems... and eventually I<br>
plan on making the library better where this is possible. <br><br>Anyone is invited to share his/her thoughts -- so if you want the<br>library to improve, go on and tell us where we can make things better.<br><br>Thanks in advance,<br>
Marc<br><br><br>[1] <a href="http://2011.foss4g.org/sessions/common-pitfalls-users-openlayers" target="_blank">http://2011.foss4g.org/sessions/common-pitfalls-users-openlayers</a><br>[2] <a href="http://2011.foss4g.org/" target="_blank">http://2011.foss4g.org/</a><br>
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