On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:55:02PM -0600, William Kyngesburye wrote: > I noticed this when I was looking at mapfish, but ultimately it's > OpenLayers. As a session in an OL map progresses, cached images build > up in the browser. In a tiled map with many layers and fractionalzoom > on this can get up into the many hundreds quite fast. > > I don't know if this adversely affects the browser performance > (probably depends on how the browser handles cached files). Is there > a way to limit the number of images OL caches? Is it worth worrying > about?
OL doesn't cache any files, though the number of files it loads can be miniized by the 'buffer':0 option on tiled layers. This is all within the browser realm; outside of the Javascript world. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
