[OpenLayers-Users] Line drawing for mobile browsers (non SVG)

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 09:54:03AM -0700, MilesTogoe wrote:
> On 10/26/2009 09:02 AM, billChadwick wrote:
>> I guess it might be best to implement a 'plain divs' renderer for
>> OpenLayers.Layer.Vector with support for limited (straight line only)
>> geometries. Anyone tried this before ?
>>    
> The one thing that holds us back from using Open Layers is that it  
> doesn't use SVG or Canvas syntax for vector drawing - the last thing we  
> want to use is another set of drawing commands. 

There are *no* drawing commands in OpenLayers, so I'm not sure exactly
what you're saying. You're creating a set of geometries and adding
them to a layer, not drawing objects.

>   I realize this was  
> done originally for the whole SVG/VML thing 

No, it wasn't. Even if we only supported SVG, I wouldn't change our
vector layer implementation at all.

(It is possible that our 'renderer' would be simpler; possible, but not
likely. OpenLayers is a geographic data management interface, not a 
LOGO program.)

> btw we're doing our drawing with  
> Canvas (we like SVG but Gecko's implementation is not that great: slow  
> and no inline <svg> tag without xml file type)

Er, the latter is untrue. I use SVG (via OpenLayers) in non-XML filetypes
all the time. 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta