[OpenLayers-Dev] Canvas for Safari?...instead of SVG and iphone?

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Wed Sep 3 15:41:19 EDT 2008


On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:55:27AM -0500, Lance Dyas wrote:
> I am just wondering how close the canvas renderer for safari is to being 
> ready

I don't know, how much more ready than "Checked into trunk with
examples, tests, etc." do you want?

> actually at one point OpenLayers vector rendering via SVG worked in Safari..
> but Safari is a moving target and it quit doing so ... (I think 
> dynamically added
> SVG elements fail to render, ones read and parsed from doc directly work)

Er, SVG works fine in Safari. I've been using it regularly. (And by
regularly, I mean 'daily'.) Why do you think it fails? 

> And did I hear canvas will work on the iphone?

Yes, the Canvas renderer in trunk works on the iphone.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta



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