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

[Jason Birch]

It may be more productive to contribute to OpenScales; it's based on
the OL idea, but in flash. It's not especially fast (I think its still
thinking mostly about rasters) but I think with the right contributors
it could be and duplication of effort / NiH sucks :)

Jason

On 2009-12-24, Zac Spitzer <zac.spitzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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