Re: [opennms-devel] Adobe flex for web gui

Anything Adobe and as we saw with SVG support would be a little
scary too then....


n Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Jeff Gehlbach <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Feb 21, 2008, at 10:23 AM, David Hustace wrote:
> > As far as Maps go, I'm still in the Canvas tag camp that was
> > demonstrated last year at DevJam.  Apple even has a coding head start
> > on the Canvas Tag (well, they should since the invented it ;-) and is
> > used quite a bit in iPhone.  It is a low memory footprint and great
> > performance.
>
> I like <canvas> too, but there are two things about it that irk me:
>
> 1. Possible patent encumberment --
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_(HTML_element)#Intellectual_property_over_canvas<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_%28HTML_element%29#Intellectual_property_over_canvas>
> 2. Lack of support for rendering text
>
> I've seen a clever workaround for (2) that pre-renders a font into a
> big PNG image, shoves the bits of that PNG file into a Javascript
> array, and then takes slices out of the big image and plops them onto
> the canvas.  (1) worries me, though.
>
> - -jeff
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