I *totally *agree with your statements... and I am not about to embed OpenLayers in a flash component myself for production use..
I am, however, still interested in my question from a technology standpoint and just plain curiosity. Thank you, Alessandro Ferrucci On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 3:20 AM, Andreas Neumann <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing > [email protected]http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-users > > -- Signed, Alessandro Ferrucci
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