[OpenLayers-Dev] Thoughts about #2318: move pink tiles to css

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Roald de Wit wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> During the FOSS4G 2009 codesprint I worked on ticket #2318 [1], which
> has been committed to trunk. It is now possible to fully control the
> looks of a broken image using CSS. The change also involves setting the
> src of the broken image to a blank.gif.  There is one drawback with this
> last addition: you cannot right-click on the image anymore to see a
> possible server error (since the src URL has changed).
> 
> Is this behaviour something we can live with or would it be better to
> keep the src URL pointing to the original image?
> 
> Regards, Roald
> 
> [1] http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2318

Roald,

Any chance that this behavior could be controlled by an option to the 
layer definition. When I'm building an application is it nice to be able 
to debug it with a right click, but when I deploy it, I think the new 
behavior is likely to be preferred.

-Steve W