[Mapserver-users] New Technology

[Dave McIlhagga]

I guess I should have qualified the browsers that we knew this to work in:

Netscape 4.79+
Mozilla 1.0+
IE 4.0x+

OSX Safari and Konqueror are two of the next high priorities.

BTW, the underlying technology itself is not browser-dependent, widgets 
have been and can be created to work in non-dhtml environments for instance.

Thanks for the feedback.
Dave



Kieran J. Ames wrote:
> It crashed my Netscape 4.76 as well.
> Kieran
> 
> Jon Shorie wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Friday 23 May 2003 12:17, Dave McIlhagga wrote:
>>
>>>MapServer Users,
>>>
>>>Leading up to the MapServer User Meeting in Minnesota, I'd like to take
>>>a moment to introduce some brand new technology to the community that we
>>>have been working on over the past 9 months, and are preparing for
>>>release (open source of course!) at the beginning of June.
>>>
>>>Chameleon is PHP & MapServer based technology that allows for the
>>>deployment of web mapping applications through the simple use of
>>>"Widgets" which are HTML-like tags that identify through a series of
>>>parameters the specific application behaviour for a given widget.  So
>>>for instance if you try the URL I've included below, you'll see this
>>>application includes map, keymap, fullextent, zoomin, zoomout, scalebar
>>>and measure widgets plus several others.  This only represents a small
>>>subset of the widgets that will be available in the initial release of
>>>Chameleon.  In addition, an API will be available for the development of
>>>new PHP widgets that can be developed for Chameleon.
>>>
>>>For us this is the most exciting technology that we feel we will be
>>>releasing since the original PHP/MapScript was released to the MapServer
>>>community three years ago.  Chameleon runs on MapServer 4.0 with both
>>>being released prior to the MapServer User Meeting in Minnesota.  Look
>>>for much more information on Chameleon in the upcoming weeks.
>>>
>>>If you'd like to try out an application of Chameleon, here's an
>>>application showing the location of the upcoming MapServer User Meeting
>>>in Minnesota:
>>>
>>>http://www.mapsherpa.com/mum/
>>>
>>>We are very keen to get feedback on how this works in a variety of
>>>browsers and operating systems.  We have done a good degree of testing
>>>in many common environments, but I'm sure there will be quirks in others
>>>so please let us know if you have any trouble.
>>>
>>>I'll send a follow-on note to the community when Chameleon 1.0 will be
>>>available to the community.  One final note -- we would like to
>>>acknowledge the funding support provided by GeoConnections of Natural
>>>Resources Canada for the development of Chameleon that is the base for
>>>their Configurable Web Mapping Client Component (CWC2) service.  You
>>>will be hearing much more about this at the MapServer User Meeting.
>>>
>>>Enjoy!
>>>
>>>Dave
>>
>>The site on the link does not seem to work well at all with konqueror.
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