On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Anselm Hook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So what are our dream features from a js web map API? > > Not to change scope of the question but can't we do better? Isn't > there any way to get beyond Javascript, the DOM, HTML and the like? > We are locked away from hardware resources that already exist on these > machines; persistence, math, rasterization... > > The DOM is weak. What impresses about Google Maps is that it exists > at all; not that it does what the average video game did 20 years > ago... > > Even Flash sticks with a DOM like model... Papervision3D is a good > example of just how hard one has to work - 3d matrix multiples are > interpreted, polygons have to be sorted by hand, even texturing a > surface has to be done by tessellation by hand... it is a super human > effort... > > Then you have ideas like SVG which fail to innovate whatsoever in > terms of raw capabilities; and yet somehow expect to steal market > share away from Flash - based on features like "its open source!" that > end users completely do not care about. You have fledgling projects > to offer client side persistence in the browser.... You have market > struggles between projects like Silverlight and Adobe AIR as attempts > to break out of the browser limits... You have the detrius of VRML > and a zillion proprietary 3d extensions... > > I'd like to see (1) a small attempt to add some minimal 3d extensions > to Firefox (even just 3d matrix multiplies and 3d textured polygons) - > such as is being done in Safari - the folks that added SVG should do
http://del.icio.us/gregorrothfuss/canvas+opengl > this (2) and some minimal attempt to provide default client side > storage - not in flash or not using flash like DOJO does but truly > native... I think with that it would be possible to build pretty rich > and satisfying interfaces... > > - anselm > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
