Hi Guys, Via some clean user-googlemaps-code (maps.js in http://www.liveearthalert.nl/page/googlemap/) I stumbled upon the javascript lib mootools (http://www.mootools.net/). (By the way is openlayers not using prototype anymore?)
Mootools has a post for beginning (and mediocre) javascript coders: http://blog.mootools.net/2007/6/5/help-i-dont-know-javascript. Especially the yahoo-video's of douglas crockford were an eyeopener for me! Concluding: - if you want to understand a little more about some constructs/concepts in Openlayers, or want to learn how to code javascript a little cleaner: do take some time to view the video's of douglas crockford and Nicholas Zakas: http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&b=4&vid=568351&gid=133414 - really have a look at the documentation of firebug (I was using it, but didn't know it had so much possibilities): still using alerts? read: http://www.getfirebug.com/logging.html - still not using the debugging features of firebug? see http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=111597 - wouldn't it be nice to have something like http://blog.mootools.net/2007/6/5/help-i-dont-know-javascript in the openlayers (users) wiki? After seeing all this, http://www.liveearthalert.nl/static/javascript/maps.js showed me a nice example to organize (application) code. Look a lot better then mine. Is it an idea to add such an example in the examples, using the Openlayers constructs (use a 'namespace', use the Ajax and 'class' code of OL, organize your constants etc etc)? Richard Duivenvoorde ps: I do understand this is probably nothing new for the OL-dev-guys themselves, but posted for all the humble webapp builders (OL-users-guys) like me ;-) _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users