[josm-dev] JOSM WMS does not work with Firefox 3

[Roy Rankin]

There is a thread in OSM-talk 
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2008-May/026384.html 
concerning the fact that the JOSM WMS pluging does not work with Firefox 3.
The issue has also been raised in TRAC in the following ticket 
http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/785.
This is to move the discussion to this list as there may be people 
better able to address this issue then myself or those on the OSM-talk list.

The problem is a result of the mozilla bug report 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379015 where the feature 
that JOSM uses in Firefox to dump Yahoo images has been removed in 
Firefox 3 as it "was not being used" and I have checked the Firefox 3 
source code and it has indeed been removed.

In the mozilla bug report Andrzej Zaborowski asked what JOSM should be 
using and Robert O'Callahan responded
 >
 > Use an embedding tool like gnome-web-photo.
 >
 > Or write a Firefox extension or a .xul app (launched using -chrome) 
that loads
 > pages, snapshots them using canvas.drawWindow, and uses toDataURL to 
produce a
 > PNG image

Francisco R. Santos frsantos at gmail.com indicated on OSm-talk


 > I have a very basic prototype using a swing browser component
 > (the Cobra library) inside JOSM displaying an openlayers frame,
 > but didn't have time to continue it.
 > If anyone is interested to continue it,
 > I can give the sources or commit it to SVN.

Regards,
Roy Rankin