[mapguide-internals] Future Development Options for Web Server Extensions and new High Performance Viewer

[Zac Spitzer]

I'd propose that what ever gets done, should be based on Openlayers
as a dynamic layer. That way we can leverage everything else already done
in OL. It also reduces the amount of work required by a factor of like 100,
plus there's a lot more dev's around in OL land

Plugins are rather 1990's, I agree with Jason that flash is a good option,
but it i reckon it should just be a layer renderer which fits into the
OL framework
if at all possible....

The possibilities with HTML5 Canvas are pretty cool...

As for browser support, I would suggest, shock horror, we only target modern
browsers, forget IE6 completely, and given the rumours about IE9 supporting
real world javascript peformance, perhaps ignore IE7 and even IE8, as neither
supports Canvas

that said, a flash layer for OL would avoid that problem :)

2009/12/25 Jason Birch <jason at jasonbirch.com>:
> Oh, and I'm running on about 3 hours sleep in last 48, so sorry if that was
> overly cranky :)
>
> 2009/12/24 Jason Birch
>
>> I can't believe that custom ActiveX or Java are seriously being considered.
>>  Is there no organisational memory of how much of a pain in the ass it was
>> for customers to maintain multiple implementations of MapGuide just to make
>> sure that everyone could use it?
>>
>>
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