Hi Robert, Thanks very much for the reference to that function. It would be really nice to get the default implementation as it has a number of other features.
Would you mind elaborating on how you replaced the default painter? TIA, -Steve On Dec 19, 10:07 am, "Robert Forkel" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/re... > > > > 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- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
