On Thursday, November 19, 2009, Kris Geusebroek <kgeusebr...@xebia.com> wrote: > Hi Eric,
Hi Kris. Thanks for response. > > Indeed it's cool, thanks. > My goal was to write an application with open source technologies to > track cars driving around. > I wrote a prototype with geoserver and openlayers and this was > succesfull. The big problem was the memory consumption (especially in > IE) because of the large amount of DOM manipulation that is done when > panning and zooming do you manage to actually lower memory consumption with your Canvas-based tiles? IIRC an image tile is two DOM elements (a div and an img). How many elements is a Canvas tile? One? > and drawing vector's (the cars, with fills, stroke, > label etc.) > > Since using a plugin is out of the question here I began investigating > the html5 canvas. > I know it's not supported in IE, but for me that was a good thing > because it gave me the opportunity to have the client choose a different > browser then IE. > > My plans for the future of the app is to also use workers and the > browser database (to be able to store historical responses clientside to > draw a route the car has followed for the last 10 minutes or so) This could be written as a OpenLayers.Protocol. Chris Schmidt started an HTML5 Protocol a while back if I recall correctly. You may want to check this with him. Thanks, -- Eric Lemoine Camptocamp France SAS Savoie Technolac, BP 352 73377 Le Bourget du Lac, Cedex Tel : 00 33 4 79 44 44 96 Mail : eric.lemo...@camptocamp.com http://www.camptocamp.com _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users