[OpenLayers-Users] First try with html5 canvas for layers

[Eric Lemoine]

On Wednesday, November 18, 2009, Kris Geusebroek <kgeusebroek at xebia.com> wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> I’m currently investigating the
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> My first try is using canvas for a layer
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> I’ve setup a sandbox which you can
> use to have a look: http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/krisgeus/openlayers/examples/tilecacheCanvas.html
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> This is the first example to show it’s
> possible ;-). Only features now are zoom and pan without the resize transition effect.
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> If anyone has remarks, ideas, feature
> requests, help offerings etc. Feel free to contact me.

This is cool!

May I ask what's your goal with displaying tiles using canvas? Is it
performance? I have never played with canvas so I'm interested to know
and talk about what it can bring to OpenLayers.

Thanks Kris,

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