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

Garthanos lancelot at inetnebr.com
Thu Sep 4 12:56:35 EDT 2008


I want to confirm a recent build does indeed detect svg support
correctly in Safari.

I am kind of assuming the vector rendering will be auto
detecting the availability of canvas as a rendering option
when svg and vml are not available?


Christopher Schmidt-4 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?
> 
>> 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.
> 
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