[OpenLayers-Users] Draw features one by one in IE?

[Eric Lemoine]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:23 PM, realjax <jax at schildmos.nl> wrote:
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> Christopher Schmidt-4 wrote:
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>> This isn't a reason not to use WMS; just a reason not to use cached WMS.
>> People use WMS for dynamic data all the time. regularly scheduled
>> (setInterval) layer.reload(true) events will update your images.
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> Maybe I should have said:
> I can not render them into a WMS layer, because the features need to respond
> to click and hover events.  Using a WMS layer would require a round trip for
> at least the click events (what position was clicked and is there a feature
> there?) and maybe hover events would not be feasible at all..
> :-)

With OpenLayers' hover handler GetFeatureInfo requests can be sent as
the mouse goes over the map.

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Eric