[OpenLayers-Dev] Rico deprecation

[Tim Schaub]

Sounds like a good plan to me, Eric.

I made a comment on the pull request about keeping rounded corners by default.
https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/99

Let me know if you think it should be otherwise.

Tim

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Eric Lemoine
<eric.lemoine at camptocamp.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> So we currently use Rico for the following:
>
> - LayerSwitcher
> - AnchoredBubble
>
> For the LayerSwitcher corners are rounded if the roundedCorners option is
> set to true, which is the default.
>
> <https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/37> suggests removing Rico
> entirely.
>
> I fully agree with the general idea. But here's the deprecation plan I'm
> proposing:
>
> - The AnchoredBubble popup doesn't make sense if Rico is no longer there to
> round its corners. And rounding a popup's corners should be done using CSS
> by the application developer. So I'd suggest that we deprecate
> AnchoredBubble entirely. For 2.12 we can just mark it as deprecated in the
> API docs, and make its constructor display a deprecation warning. After 2.12
> we can move it to deprecated.js.
>
> - Leave the Rico lib where it currently is for now, and move it to
> deprecated.js after 2.12 is released.
>
> - For LayerSwitcher we remove the `@include
> Rico.js` statement, mark the roundedCorners option as deprecated in the API
> docs, change its default value to false, and make the constructor display a
> deprecation message if roundedCorners is true. With 2.12 users would need to
> explicitely include Rico.js to have rounded corners for their layer
> switchers. After 2.12 they would need to include deprecated.js (where the
> Rico lib will be).
>
> What do you think?
>
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