On 10/09/2010 4:08 PM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
Hi,
Thank you for your information on future plans about output based on
Cairo.
Regarding the SVG support, my main concern is that if the output goes
through Cairo than there is no chance of adding attributes and
semantics to the vector features in SVG - am I correct? In SVG one
could f.e. embed title and description elements, as well as non-graphical
That is correct from what I can see.
attributes in a separate namespace in the XML output. Now that SVG
support will be widespread in all browsers (IE9 will be implementing
SVG), I would assume that people would make more use of SVG output,
also for interactive maps. In this setup it would be nice if one could
have the option between a pure graphical output (probably the CAIRO
output version) and a more semantically rich output (a separate output
driver?) I would recommend to go with Cairo, but leave the door open
for another, alternative output driver for more sophisticated SVG output.
I agree with you that we would have more control on what we can output
if we have a native MapServer svg driver. I think adding a native SVG
driver will always possible baring in mind that there is enough
need/interest to add it and support it in the long term
Thanks for your feedback.
regards,
Regarding SWF: it would be better if Flash would die in the long run -
it is not part of the open web and a black box. All browser project
now seem committed to implement SVG and canvas. So I myself wouldn't
care if you would drop SWF support. Other users may think different.
Just my two cents,
Andreas
On 9/10/10 5:09 PM, Yewondwossen Assefa wrote:
Hi all,
The Dev team is reviewing and preparing for the 6.0 MapServer
release [1][2]. There are significant changes and new features in
this release. One of them is the rendering overhaul. The reasons
behind is to facilitate the long term maintenance and make sure that
all the output formats are in sync feature-wise.
Currently output drivers such as svg, pdf and flash lag in
functionality and supported features compare to the AGG/GD output.
As part of this re-factoring, the Cairo library [3] will be added
allowing SVG and PDF outputs to pass through this library. This
would deprecate the current support of native svg and pdf in MapServer.
The other renderer that is affected is the SWF (Flash) renderer: at
this point there is no effort to bring this output feature to the
level of other renderers. This means that there is a big chance that
the SWF support will not be part of the 6.0 release (unless someone
wants to fund it). Is this something that affects lots/some users?
best regards,
[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/60ReleasePlan
[2] http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/60MigrationIssues
[3] http://cairographics.org/
*
*
--
----------------------------------------------------------------
Assefa Yewondwossen
Software Analyst
Email:[email protected]
http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
Phone: (613) 565-5056 (ext 14)
Fax: (613) 565-0925
----------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
mapserver-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
_______________________________________________
mapserver-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
--
----------------------------------------------------------------
Assefa Yewondwossen
Software Analyst
Email: [email protected]
http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
Phone: (613) 565-5056 (ext 14)
Fax: (613) 565-0925
----------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
mapserver-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
