[OpenLayers-Users] Poll: Common pitfalls when using OpenLayers / what annoys you the most?

[Franz Buchinger]

* CSS-customizing of controls: some controls support it to a very high
degree, others almost don't, since they do massive inline-styling (images,
dimensions) via Javascript. Yet there is no clear deprecation warning about
those "CSS-denying" controls that are obviously kept for compatibility
reasons.

* Popups: all OpenLayers popups look a bit antiquated, I'd love to see new
versions.

* Minifying the OpenLayers library with the python build script can take
some time. I replaced jsmin.py with rjsmin.py and saw a 5x speedup (
http://opensource.perlig.de/rjsmin/). This comes in handy when you decide to
build your own minified openlayers version, but forgot some classes to
include and thus have to recompile frequently.

* Coordinate Transformations fail silently (i.e. no transformation is
performed at al) if the required proj4js definition isn't available. Some
warning would be nice.

regards,

Franz

2011/8/5 Sveen Atle Frenvik (Geomatikk IKT) <Atle.Frenvik.Sveen at geomatikk.no
>

> While I for most of the time enjoy working with OpenLayers, I do have a
> point that bugs me:
>
> The fact that styling of features is complicated, and involves concepts
> like Style, styleMap and just a key-value object, and can be set on both
> layers and features, in many ways, makes styling features complex. in
> addition does the api doc list a Style2 class, which confuses me..
>
> apart from that: personally i am bugged that it took me so long time to
> discover how versatile til Panel control is, but that is my own fault i
> recon..
>
> Good luck with your talk!
>
> -Atle
>
>
>
> Marc Jansen <jansen at terrestris.de> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> for my talk "Common pitfalls for users of OpenLayers" [1] at this years
> FOSS4G [2] I want to evaluate the parts of OpenLayers where users of the
> library experience problems.
>
> You would help me -- and the project itself -- a lot if you could answer
> in this thread and tell me what problems you had working with OpenLayers.
>
> Please do not hesitate to tell us what has bugged you, what was unclear
> or non-intuitive. Provide us with the sall and the big annoyances Of
> course you are heavily encouraged to provide ways around the pitfalls
> and possible enhancements.
>
> I want to identify areas which often cause problems... and eventually I
> plan on making the library better where this is possible.
>
> Anyone is invited to share his/her thoughts -- so if you want the
> library to improve, go on and tell us where we can make things better.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Marc
>
>
> [1] http://2011.foss4g.org/sessions/common-pitfalls-users-openlayers
> [2] http://2011.foss4g.org/
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