Christopher Schmidt wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:44:42PM -0500, Lance Dyas wrote: > >> I have been able to get OpenLayers to work with lightwindow, which is >> based on prototype.js >> however ... this is one of the heaviest libraries... others based on >> jQuery dont work due to incompatibilities of OL: with jquery.. >> has anyone found a lighter solution which works with OpenLayers? >> > > jQuery and OpenLayers can work fine together: it just requires a bit of > effort well thats not quite my definition of fine... if you override JQueries $ then you have to track back whether it will still work with some library X derived of JQuery... and if not then you have to give JQuery an alternative $ (which JQuery has automated) and modify the other library to use...yes a little effort > (and work on fixing this is a "Patches welcome" kind of deal.) > I saw the code where openlayers checks for the existance of the other $ definition... it didnt look like there was any obvious reason it didnt work...(guess an obvious reason would already be fixed) > http://faq.openlayers.org/misc/why-doesnt-openlayers-work-with-jquery/ > > Regards, >
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