[Geomoose-users] GeoMoose 2.0 Re: GeoMOOSE 2.0 Planning - The menu bar

[Dan Little]

There are ways to do includes, the problem with XML includes is that they are not universally supported by all of the Javascript-engines (as they are different between IE-versions, FF-versions, Opera, and Safari) and they also cause MASSIVE loading slow-downs as they require multiple AJAX requests and then doing document-node importing which is inherently a very slow process.


----- Original Message ----
> From: Mark Volz <MarkVolz at co.lyon.mn.us>
> To: geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 3:44:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] GeoMoose 2.0 Re: GeoMOOSE 2.0 Planning - The menu bar
> 
> Dan,
> 
> I think that we should move the menu items to the mapbook.  Is it possible to
> have an include statement in the mapbook xml?  That way users could define
> the menu locally in a mapbook, or if preferred globally via the include
> statement.  I also like Nelson's idea of having a way to disable the menu.  
> 
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> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:31:13 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Dan Little 
> Subject: [Geomoose-users] GeoMOOSE 2.0 Planning - The menu bar.
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> Hey Everyone,
> 
> I'm working on GeoMOOSE 2 and I'm trying to mull over the menu bar.  If I had
> my way it would be gone, but I think I've seen enough people using it to
> where I don't want to do that. :-)
> 
> I am, however, thinking about integrating the Menu definition into the
> Mapbook for mapbook version 2.0.  This would have a few advantages:
> 1) Decrease the number of files needed to be downloaded at start-up
> 2) Decrease the amount of XML that needs to be parsed.
> 3) Decrease the amount of bugs in IE and Opera, where the multithreaded AJAX
> support is buggy despite all claims otherwise.
> 4) Defining the menu bar would be come consistent with the new way of
> defining the tool bar.
> 
> There's only one disadvantage as I see it, you could forseeably have
> installations that all use the same menu bar, but different mapbooks and not
> wish to change individual mapbooks if one is making a global change to the
> menubar.
> 
> I'd love to hear some feed back on this. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Duck
> 
> 
> 
> 
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