[OpenLayers-Users] Subtle issue with Safari/Opera

[bartvde at osgis.nl]

A way to check might be to see if the loadingpanel example works for you or
not (this is against 2.6):

http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/bartvde/loadingpanel/examples/loadingpanel.html

Best regards,
Bart

On Tue, 20 May 2008 08:10:29 -0400, Christopher Schmidt
<crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:06:50AM +0200, Diego Guidi wrote:
>> I'm working in a issue that compares only in safari and opera
>> browsers, and I'm searching for any kind of suggestion...
>> I have a monitor component that listens for a loadstart/loadend event
>> and shows/hide an animated gif... nothing complicated: in my code
>> (that I've modified form a source code published in this mailing list)
>> I have a monitor functions like this.
>> monitor: function(layer)
>> {
>> layer.events.register('loadstart', this, this.start);
>> layer.events.register('loadcancel', this, this.end);
>> layer.events.register('loadend', this, this.end);
>> }
>> and I use this component to monitor a WMS layer with a singleTile
>> option activated.
>>
>> All works well in IE and Firefox2, but in Safari 3.1 and Opera 9.2 the
>> loadend event is thrown immediately, and not when the load  is
>> effectively terminated! I'm pretty sure about this because I've
>> verified (via console.log messages) that loadend is generated
>> immediately after loadstart.
> 
> 
>> This is maybe strange, but the really strange issue is that the same
>> monitor component (exactly the same lines of code) works well (in all
>> the browsers!) in another website build from my colleague: in this
>> website the component is used to monitor the same WMS layer, uses
>> google data as background like the mine, but something is different
>> (as example, we used different custom layer switchers).
>> The main point is that my website uses OL 2.6 (actually, I'm using
>> http://openlayers.org/api/OpenLayers.js to grab OL from internet),
>> when my colleague uses OL 2.5 from a local repository.
>> So maybe something has changed in event model from 2.5 to 2.6?
> 
> Perhaps, but I'm not aware of anything changing there that would affect
> this intentionally, so presumably it was an unintentional side effect of
> the work done on tile transitions. I did a lot of work on maintaining
> backwards copatibility, but it's certainly possible that I screwed it
> up.
> 
> Regards,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> MetaCarta
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