RE: Mapping
"Devin McBride" <[email protected]>
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Don't quote me on this but I remember reading a rumor not too long ago that apple was getting prepared to drop safari from macos. So, #1 don't feel bad its giving you a hard time as it may not matter soon anyhow And #2 install the firefox ;) DM -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J. Kyllo Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 1:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Mapping Well I am back in town and have had some time to read up on stuff and work a bit with mapping. For so many years I have completely avoided JavaScript because of cross-browser issues and simple page design principles. For this project I have finally broken out of that and I've already been bitten by it. Apparently Safari does not have an actual DOM parser and so it is unable to handle any kind of fancy XML. It can handle basic stuff and certainly has functions to work with XML elements but it is far from sufficient for handling RDF/XML. This is unfortunate since RDF/XML would be awesome to use. My thoughts at this point are these: 1) Leave Safari completely in the dust, for now, anyway. 2) Maintain an rdf file that gets run through a script to produce a more docile xml file that just describes GoogleMaps objects. Item 1 bugs me because I use Safari (I'm not really sure why - maybe just lazy - or stubborn) and it is a somewhat significant browser to not support it. Item 2 is annoying because the xml file will either be potentially out of date or a server will have a big load put on it in order to convert on the fly. Additionally, this makes for an inflexible client-side implementation. My temptation right now is to stick with #2 and hope that something else happens to kill the issue with Safari. For instance, a DOM parser implmented entirely in JavaScript would be great, although slow. Regarding RDF/XML, I think I can get the data I need defined just by using an rdf schema that adds two properties to the already available classes. As for GoogleMaps having cool area graphics (like for node coverage) someone has implemented a library to extend GoogleMaps with the ability to have filled polygons and the like. That's all for now. Cheers. -Jeff _______________________________________________ Talk mailing list [email protected] http://seattlewireless.net/mailman/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ Talk mailing list [email protected] http://seattlewireless.net/mailman/listinfo/talk