Hi,
I personally stay away from Flash and hope that the OpenLayers project
does, too.
Flash requires a plugin. Many government organizations, including my own
employer, do not install browser plugins - however, they have modern
browsers installed. The claim that Adobe Flash has an install base of
>90% is simply wrong, esp. with mobile devices. Flash remains a black
box (binary format), with bad integration in the browser. Most of the
browser crashes, and sometimes also operating system crashes, can be
tracked back to Flash.
Flash had always bad support on the Linux platform, especially on 64bit.
Many mobile devices do not support flash for obvious reasons. There are
signs that the Flash install base will erode away during the coming years.
On the other hand native graphics support in browsers (SVG, Canvas,
WebGL, CSS) and other app-support (web storage, HTML5 forms, better
javascript performance, etc.) is improving continuously, as a native
browser technology.
Flash is also in control of a single company that has profit
maximization and monopoly as its goal, not the prosperity of the web
ecosystem.
All these arguments that OpenLayers should not support the Flash
platform, in my opinion.
Andreas
On 3/12/11 12:54 AM, Alessandro Ferrucci wrote:
Hello,
i stumbled upon this website.
http://peoplesmap.com/Map.aspx
the map component is a flash component but I see that in the source
code they do create an OpenLayers map... not sure if the openlayers
map is embedded in the flash component though...
is that what they are doing here?
if not, does anyone know if it's possible to embed an OpenLayers map
in flash (or flex) and have flash interact with the javascript in
OpenLayers through ExternalInterface or something?
Thank you
--
Signed,
Alessandro Ferrucci
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