[OpenLayers-Commits] r11974 - project/website
commits-20090109 at openlayers.org
commits-20090109 at openlayers.org
Wed May 18 16:51:16 EDT 2011
Author: tschaub
Date: 2011-05-18 13:51:15 -0700 (Wed, 18 May 2011)
New Revision: 11974
Modified:
project/website/index.shtml
Log:
Taking editorial liberties and deleting a paragraph that is particularly dated. This page has a lot of text.
Modified: project/website/index.shtml
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--- project/website/index.shtml 2011-05-18 19:48:29 UTC (rev 11973)
+++ project/website/index.shtml 2011-05-18 20:51:15 UTC (rev 11974)
@@ -65,22 +65,12 @@
<h3>For Developers!</h3>
<p>OpenLayers is a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data in most
modern web browsers, with no server-side dependencies. OpenLayers implements a
-(still-developing) <a href="//trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Documentation">JavaScript
+<a href="//trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Documentation">JavaScript
API</a> for building rich web-based geographic applications, similar to the
Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth APIs, with one important difference --
OpenLayers is Free Software, developed for and by the Open Source software
community.</p>
-<p>Furthermore, OpenLayers implements industry-standard methods for geographic
-data access, such as the OpenGIS Consortium's Web Mapping Service (WMS) and Web
-Feature Service (WFS) protocols. Under the hood, OpenLayers is written in
-object-oriented JavaScript, using components from <a
-href="//prototype.conio.net/">Prototype.js</a> and the <a
-href="//openrico.org/">Rico</a> library. The OpenLayers code base already has
-hundreds of <a href="/dev/tests/run-tests.html">unit tests</a>, via the <a
-href="http://straytree.com/TestAnotherWay/doc/index.html">Test.AnotherWay</a>
-framework.</p>
-
<p>As a framework, OpenLayers is intended to separate map <i>tools</i> from map
<i>data</i> so that all the tools can operate on all the data sources. This
separation breaks the proprietary silos that earlier GIS revolutions have
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