Hi Janis, thanks for the feedback. I'd put your points under the following headlines:
"Slow vector rendering expecially in IE", "Make standard use-cases super-easy (e.g. popups)", "Cleanup examples to keep them in sync with the API" OK? Best regards, Marc On 05.08.2011 10:37, Janis Elmeris wrote: > A couple of problems I can think of right now. > > * The slowness of vector layer in IE without Canvas support (up to > IE8, I guess?). > Zac mentioned performance warnings when adding more than 1000 > objects. I get problems with IE7 when adding more than 100 objects. In > my case they are text labels each constructed of two VML elements. > They could theoretically be replaced by DIV elements, but probably > better just wait for people to upgrade their browsers. A workaround is > to measure and control the performance by OL library user script. > > * The clumsy (not strightforward) way to get a marker (not necessarily > meaning the Marker class here) on a map that display an info pop-up > upon a mouse click. > I've seen many posts where people are asking help on this, > even though it would seem one of the basic features one would want to > do with a map. In addition, it seems that there are several ways to do > it, some official examples offered are out-dated and actually supposed > to be deprecated (the Markers layers altogether, as I understand), and > some functions supposedly (as per documentation) creating pop-ups do > not work or do not work as it would seem they should. > > Janis > > On 2011.08.05. 10:26, Marc Jansen 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
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