Sorry for the very late reply, but I was on holiday and temporarily moved to 
another project. But now I am back again!

I created a GetFeature control (with custom protocol) which works similar with 
your selectfeature: a list of features (at the mouse position) is displayed in 
a popup. When the user clicks on an item in the list, some data is shown (no 
wfs data, just a REST call).

One of the scenario's I am struggling with is selecting multiple features. In 
our current application we have a SelectFeature control using the WFS layers. 
So a user could select some features (using mouse clicks and/or box selection). 
Then these selected features could be used to execute another function in the 
application. But now these WFS layers don't exist anymore, so wondering what's 
the best approach to simulate this behavior.

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Van: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] Namens Phil Scadden
Verzonden: woensdag 5 november 2014 21:30
Aan: [email protected]
Onderwerp: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Alternatives to get rid of WFS layers

I use GetFeature Control for hover functionality, but sometimes 
WMSGetFeatureInfo with hover with an Html template backend is good enough. 
(When your application only needs to display the attributes, not do any other 
processing of them). I use selectfeature for "info" and "polygon" tool which 
usually have the assumption that multiple features will be returned - display 
list of features in a popup and the user doing further processing from there.

Depending on database size, you could try some pre-load tricks. onmove you 
issue WFS GetFeature for the area covered by the map but ONLY for attributes, 
not shape (that should reduce your download size). Then you need only featureid 
returned from hover and look up the other attributes in the preloaded table.

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