On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:13:40AM +0200, Esteban olm wrote: > Hello, > > Is in the openlayers developers' mind the idea of use javscript workers in > browsers that will support them to improve performance? > > I think, for example, to have two "sub-layers" for each layer, so the > workers draws the new data on the hidden sublayer, then when finished, it > calls the main thread and it hides the actual sublayer and shows the hidden > one, or something like that. > > For the user, there is no IU lost of performance, and he see the layer > re-drawn only when it has been finished. > Or something like that :)
As far as I know, no browser (apart from Chrome?) natively supports Javascript workers. The idea of maintaining something that is in such a small percentage of browsers in the core of OpenLayers worries me, but would be happy to suppot it as an addin, maintained by the community. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
