[OpenLayers-Users] reason why there needs to be ArcIMS support in OpenLayers

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 03:32:05PM +0100, Duarte Carreira wrote:
> But nothing would beat OL native support of ArcIMS layers.

The possibly significant cost of doing two round trips from the browser
for each request might actually make that untrue. (No way to know without
testing, but possible.) I'm not against it for that reason -- it's
always been on my plate to implement an ArcXML layer (There's even a
ticket for it in trac), but it's something to be aware of. 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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