On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 11:53 +0100, Andrea Aime wrote: > Chris Holmes ha scritto: > > Hmmm... The standards work would be good, but I was imagining that > > implementing the parser in javascript would be better. Parse from the > > language in to OL Style objects, which can then be persisted out as SLD > > objects for GeoServer. GS would still use SLD through and through. > > Doing things this way also gets us the ability to do real time previews > > on the client side, without GS having to do the rendering. Are there > > other advantages to a java parser that I'm missing? > > Hmmm... if you're thinking to have a UI on top of this, then it makes > not much sense, since a UI is there to hide the underlying storage > anyways. > > CSS based styling idea is there to have web designers work on the > CSS directly, and in that case, turning it into SLD to be > posted on the server side does not look great, as we'd have to > translate back and forth between the two ways of expressing a style, > and possibly loose the CSS on the way along with comments that > the web dev embedded in it. > I mean, if you post the SLD to the server, where do you store the CSS? > > Cheers > Andrea >
My 2 cents worth: it's valuable to expose the css source to web designers; sometimes things are just easier in text mode (says the cli junkie). It's probably possible to ensure a 1:1 mapping between CSS and SLD, especially if that's taken into account throughout the design process. Anyway, just wanted to comment that I have a couple of hundred lines of javacc written toward CSS support in geotools, so I'd be happy to (co?)mentor this one. -- David Winslow OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
