On 9/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:Sebastian@sspaeth.de">Sebastian@sspaeth.de</a></b> <<a href="mailto:Sebastian@sspaeth.de">Sebastian@sspaeth.de</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 10:53:18PM +0100, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:<br>> > Generating stuff on the fly will work for the simple formats at the
<br>> > moment, but as soon as we have many requests and/or complex<br>> > conversions everything will break down. So better create a queueing<br>> > mechanism right now into which we can then integrate various backends.
<br>><br>> Could we do client side conversions using Java applets or in-browser xslt?<br><br>Good idea. I know that osmarender is capable of producing SVG files that<br>can be viewed in Firefox. So it should be possible to hand the browser
<br>and .osm file together with the xslt sheets and have it produce SVG<br>itself. (Never tried if it actually works though).</blockquote><div><br>Yes, it does work. The capability got broken in Osmarender 4, but was resurrected in Osmarender 5. Both Firefox and IE are capable of rendering SVG.
<br><br>For IE you do need to have the Adobe SVG plugin. <br><br>For Firefox 2.x performance is not very good. However, I have tried it with alpha versions of Firefox 3 (Gran Paradiso) and it works much faster there.<br>
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