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

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 08:06:04AM -0500, Lance Dyas wrote:
> Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> >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?
> >
> >  
> Great is there special effort required to use it for the iphone
> environment when using a GML

Dunno; Let the list know when you try it out. 

> >>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? 
> >  
> The WMS has changed for this layer.. but
> http://www.microimages.com/ogc/maps/nebraskaopen.htm#lat=40.83126&lon=-102.20917&zoom=2
> 
> This is not the latest version of OpenLayers in use.. 

Right. Fix that. Use OL 2.6 or
http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Vectors/SafariRegression .

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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