[OpenLayers-Dev] 2.6 Open Ticket Summary

[Christopher Schmidt]

I will be doing one of these every 2 days or so until we have an RC1.

This is a summary of the tickets listed on
http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Release/2.6

    * Tickets To Review Query: 
        #1410: Path Handler can result in selection of map
            Patch from bartvde; improved by elemoine. No review yet.

        #1411: WMC: hidden is not always correctly interpreted
            Patch from crschmidt to add layerOptions as seemingly
            described by Tim. No review yet.
        #1418: dragging mode of modify feature control is broken
            Patch from elemoine. crschmidt tested, looks okay, but has
            no idea what the code should look like. Still needs review.

    * Tickets To Commit Query: 
        #1360
            SVG renderer draws features in the upperleft corner of the
            map pane when coordinate outside range

    * Tickets which Need More Work: 
        #1364: zoom responce is delayed when you have a lot of
            OpenLayer.Layers on the map.
        
            It looks like we've lost a fair chunk of speed when zooming 
            the map in 2.6 vs. 2.5 when working with many layers. It's
            not entirely clear to me why this is, and my toolchain is
            not helping me: need some help doing accurate profiling and, if
            possible, nailing the revision when it dropped.
        
        #1426: KML icons misalign with hotSpot nodes
            I think this one may actually be the result of #1428, but
            can't confirm: there's an issue where 
            http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/euzuro/pop/examples/sundials.html
            is not displaying anything in IE6 or IE7.

        #1428: request.fileType check forces parsing of request.responseText
            This was causing test failures in IE6 earlier today, though
            I can't reproduce it now.

    * Tickets which Need Discussion: 
        #1378: clicking next to the map causes selection of controls
            Need some advice on best path to solving this problem: some
            solutions proposed in tickets.

        #1431: Features that fail the SVG renderer's inValidRange check
            will not be redrawn when recentering the map
            
            This is not a regression; I'm in favor of pushing it off to
            post-2.6.

    * Outstanding Tickets Query: 

        #926: Google Style Popups
            Two major outstanding issues:
  * Weird black coloration of blocks in IE. I think this might be
    because the contentDiv is for some reason having a background-color:
    I feel this way in part because the CloudAmber (semi-transparent)
    popups show a 'darker' color in the entire area the popup is.
  * Miscalculation of popup or contentDiv size causes scrollbar to go
    outside of popup instead of inside.
        
        #1387: rename test pages
            Not directly related to release

        #1429: untiled layer with minScale/maxScale does not always clear
            Regression from 2.5, though I'll admit I'm slightly confused
            on the expected behavior.

Regards,
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Christopher Schmidt
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