On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 03:29:29PM +0200, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S wrote: > I can see that there are several patches supporting zoom animation, > which are reportedly included in OpenLayers 2.6. > Why are these not enabled in the demo application on the main page? > http://openlayers.org/
Because, to be frank, the feature is buggy enough that I seldom enable it on fast, tiled maps. I like the feature a lot, and think it has a place, but the main OpenLayers homepage is one place where I think being a bit more considerate of users who have browsers which perform less well is important: In Safari, for example, teh feature tends to mean that instead of getting a nicely resized set of tiles, you get randomly ordered tiles stuck all over the place until the new ones load in. This is also the case in Google Maps, so I don't consider it to be a showstopper in OpenLayers, but on the homepage, I would personally prefer to keep it somewhat simple: if they want the cool effects, they can hit the examples. That said, the website is not really something anyone has spent a lot of love on, so if someone were to want to revamp it, they should feel free to offer. The code is in SVN -- http://svn.openlayers.org/project/website/ -- and I'd be glad to have more people working on managing and maintaining the website as our public face to the project. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
