[OpenLayers-Users] About WFS and Openlayers

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:47:08PM +0200, Guillaume Sueur wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> I don't see how minimizing is relevant here. It was not a bug, and not 
> presented as one, just a usage question, and its description was clear 
> enough to focus rapidly on the most usability problem that can occur 
> when using vector layers. I don't see what can be minimized here. Do you ?

First, My email was sent before I realized that the problem was solved.
Second, the original post included a reasonable *description* of the
problem, but not a demonstration of it that could be reproduced. I
could not  guess, based on the email, what the problem was.
(SPecifically, my first suggestion was going to be that 'AddLayer" has a
lower case a, since the content given in the email didn't preclude a
typo as the source of the problem.)

Third, there are three parts to that email: Minimize, Publish,
Communicate. The important one here was 'Publish' -- in order to
effectivvely determine the source of the problem, I believe that seeing
the code would have been helpful.

Any time I can't see the code, my first response is not going to be to
poke at it through other people -- it's going to be to ask them to
narrow it down.

In this case, minimizing the problem -- such that it was about a
particular dataset -- would have demonstrated that it was a 'size of
data' problem. That would have allowed the user to determine the cause
of the problem, and -- as was done anyway -- fix it. 

Best Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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