On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 04:31:34AM -0600, Tim Schaub wrote: > Hey- > > Christopher Schmidt wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:02:13PM -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 05:46:47PM -0600, Tim Schaub wrote: > >>> Hey- > >>> > >>> Some may have already seen the proposal for new vector layer behavior. > >>> http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Proposal/VectorBehavior > >>> > >>> This week, I'll be working on implementing a bit of this new design. > >>> I'm focussed on an AtomPub protocol, an Atom format, and a somewhat > >>> smartish BBOX strategy. > >> Thanks for the email letting us know what's up. > >> > >> Out of curiosity: some Protocols seem likely to be 'trapped' within a > >> single Format. I'm assuming that you don't see any problem with that, so > >> long as it is sufficiently documented. I'm asking only because the > >> majority of protocols seem to clearly be in a position where they'll be > >> able to cope with many formats -- WFS read support, AtomPub support, > >> etc. -- while a minority -- ESRI-REST, WFS-T/write, etc. -- are tied to > >> a specific Format. Does this make sense? Is a format-specific protocol > >> still a protocol? (I think yes.) > > > > Alright, based on my assumption, I've gone ahead and implemented Google > > Gears and HTML5 Local Storage support. > > http://crschmidt.net/mapping/localdb/ . Patch is at > > http://crschmidt.net/~crschmidt/localdb.patch ; it's in SVK. When you > > guys are done on your push, let me know, and we can talk about the best > > way to integrate. > > > > Looks nice. I really want to make sure we get this right before being > stuck with any one design. The more implementations the better - as > long as nobody is promising *anybody* about things being set in stone. > > Perhaps SQL is a better protocol name (just a bit closer to "protocol" > than HTML5).
Yeah; I realized that after I wrote it :) Then we'd have various implemenetations: SQL.HTML5/SQL.GoogleGears, maybe? I dunno. There's definitely a lot of cleanup in this regard: I'm happy to continue discussing it once you're past your near-term deadline :) For now, I think it makes a cool demo regardless. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
