[OSM-dev] Shaded relief in OSM

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 04:15:51PM +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
> In message <4756CDE2.6030000 at xs4all.nl>
>         Stefan de Konink <skinkie at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> > Martijn van Oosterhout schreef:
> >
> >> IIRC, the reason this isn't done is because some popular browsers
> >> don't support transparent PNGs. And if you hack them so they do it
> >> becomes unbearably slow.
> >> 
> >> I can't say for sure, I don't run one of these browsers...
> >
> > The popular browser supported it through a CSS/DX hack doesn't it?
> 
> Yes - a hack which OL automatically applies.

No: A hack which, if applied thorugh OpenLayers, makes the map totally
unusable due to poor performance.

(It's automatically applied to markers and controls, *not* to map tiles,
for this reason.)

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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