Hi Zac, thanks for the feedback. I'd pu your points under the following headlines:
"Opt-in for strictness in checking of arguments etc." "An aiding debug mode with notices is missing" "Performance-warnings" OK? Best regards, Marc On 05.08.2011 10:07, Zac Spitzer wrote: > most of the time, it's the silent failures which can be very > frustrating / confusing, > like when json fails to parse, an empty object is returned (might of > been fixed tho?) > > it's also easy enough to mix up passing in parameters in options or > layer params, > having a heavy debug mode which validates struct parameters as being known > parameters would be helpful for beginners. > > also spitting out performance warnings when adding 1000's of items to > vector layer in older versions of IE > > there is a wealth of post's of common problems which people > have posted on the mailing list about > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Marc Jansen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> for my talk "Common pitfalls for users of OpenLayers" [1] at this years >> FOSS4G [2] I want to evaluate the parts of OpenLayers where users of the >> library experience problems. >> >> You would help me -- and the project itself -- a lot if you could answer >> in this thread and tell me what problems you had working with OpenLayers. >> >> Please do not hesitate to tell us what has bugged you, what was unclear >> or non-intuitive. Provide us with the sall and the big annoyances Of >> course you are heavily encouraged to provide ways around the pitfalls >> and possible enhancements. >> >> I want to identify areas which often cause problems... and eventually I >> plan on making the library better where this is possible. >> >> Anyone is invited to share his/her thoughts -- so if you want the >> library to improve, go on and tell us where we can make things better. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Marc >> >> >> [1] http://2011.foss4g.org/sessions/common-pitfalls-users-openlayers >> [2] http://2011.foss4g.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-users >> > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-users
