[OpenLayers-Users] Future of OpenLayers or OL3

[George Silva]

The web is evolving fast. Many web clients are being deprecated at the
organizations around the world.

Sooner or later, everyone will use a more compatible browser. OpenLayers
cannot wait for larger organizations to adopt newer browsers. The
development of new technology cannot be hold by the obsolence of others.

That said, I feel that if you have a customer that has a large user base
and still want's to keep using internet explorer 6 (that is like, 10 years
old?), it's also your job to convince them otherwise. There are open
solutions to this problem (webkit, ff, opera?) and they don't need to spend
one dollar on it.

2cents


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Sergeant_york <electronicpanda at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello there,
>
> I want to share my ideas and hesitations about GIS technologies and
> OpenLayers.
>
> Firstly, when I heard OL3 will use webGL I was so happy... Until I read
> about microsoft's policy about webGL. Probably with fear of competition
> they
> are completely thinking that webGL has security issues. That leaves
> Silverlight for map applications if you want to use computer's hardware
> totally. Unfortunately Silverlight doesn't have solutions as much as
> OpenLayers has. Technology is not the same as 1 sec ago and Microsoft
> follows the technology a bit slow.
>
> Secondly, in my opinion OpenLayers is the strongest tool for using gis
> applications. Everytime when I face with a problem, maybe as a habit, I say
> "I am sure OpenLayers has a solution for this problem" then I find it in
> api
> reference. So it is not easy to stop using OpenLayers for web based
> applications.
>
> On the other hand, eventhough Openlayers has good solutions and applies
> standarts pretty well, with extreme problems it may have performance
> issues.
> Actually, it is not OpenLayer's but web browser's performance issues.
> Because of limitations to use computer hardware in web applications cannot
> show than x amount of features or cannot show more than y layers together.
>
> Let's get back to 1st paragraph. OL3 uses webGL, I loved this. But still,
> unfortunately, high amount of the customers are still use "internet
> explorer". Because when a person is old, it is not easy to change their
> habits to make them use another browser that will accept webgl, and when a
> person is old, most likely they have money to support your projects.
>
> Also, with same performance reasons, it is not easy to apply complex jobs
> in
> applications. Technology is improving but when we are looking at OL
> geometry
> editing tools, they cannot serve a good solution for users who want to edit
> geometries.
>
> So, I think it is a good idea to implement webGL technologies but it is not
> a %100 solution for gis applications. That's why I am looking forward for
> OL3 to has better performance without using webGL too.
>
> What are your ideas for future of mainly OL and also other GIS clientside
> tools?
>
>
>
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George R. C. Silva

Desenvolvimento em GIS
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