just replaced the call to the painter script with a map icon factory i fond here: http://gmaps-utility-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/mapiconmaker/release/src/mapiconmaker.js
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Larry, > I agree hosting yourself makes the most sense and I've moved the > source to my own server and I'm trying to run an app that uses Exhibit > with the Google Maps extension but the problem is there appears to be > references to things that aren't provided. For example, the painters > (simile.mit.edi/painter...) for the map used in the map extension. I > can't seem to find that anywhere, am I simply missing something? > > Also, the reference to static.simile... is hardcoded throughout the > source so there appears to be no easy way to direct it to a server of > your own. > > Having said those things, I understand this is open source thus I > don't mind fixing the URL's myself (unfortunately, I don't have time > right now to work on a better solution) but the missing piece are > pretty crucial. > > -Steve > > On Dec 19, 9:54 am, Larry Kluger <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Eric, >> >> In my humble opinion, you are *far* better off hosting the libraries >> yourself rather than depending on an .mit.edu server. >> Like, night and day better off. >> >> The Yahoo folks have studied the issues of people's caches being primed and >> the effect is, unfortunately, much less than what would be hoped for. >> The odds of one of your clients having a cached version of the Simile >> libraries from some other Simile-based page that is not connected to your >> app are tiny. Or smaller. >> >> Be vertically integrated, host it yourself. >> >> Regards, >> >> Larry >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Eric Pugh <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 8:52:19 AM >> Subject: Re: simile.mit.edu down? >> >> Joern, >> >> We are seeing the same thing. I had made the assumption that this >> site would be more reliable then hosting it ourselves, and allow the >> possiblity that folks might already have the javascript cached >> locally, however, maybe we are better off hosting it ourselves :-( >> >> I know Google had an effort to host some big javascript libraries, is >> there anything like that for the Simile assets? >> >> Eric >> >> On Dec 19, 2008, at 4:25 AM, Jörn Clausen wrote: >> >> >> >> > Hi! >> >> > I think simile.mit.edu is down. The site is not reachable, and so are >> > sites still using the code hosted there. >> >> > Is this a planned downtime? Did I miss the EOL announcement?? >> >> > -- >> > Joern Clausen >> > [email protected] >> >http://www.oe-files.de/oefiles/ >> >http://thebloeg.blogspot.com/ >> >> ----------------------------------------------------- >> Eric Pugh | Principal | OpenSource Connections, LLC | 434.466.1467 >> |http://www.opensourceconnections.com > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
