[josm-dev] Poor JOSM Yahoo imagery solution?

[andrzej zaborowski]

2009/11/24 Bodo Meissner <bodo at bodo-m.de>:
> Dirk Stöcker wrote:
>> No, but they use Flash API, which allows to access these images. But when
>> I tried last time I was not able to create a download script based on
>> Flash.

My records indicate raw Yahoo flash API doesn't give you better
resolution than the js API.

>
> Webkit can use the FlashPlayer browser plugin to display Flash animations.
> I have seen a software that provides a C++ object that uses webkit in combination with the FlashPlayer plugin and some JavaScript to call ActionScript from C++ and vice versa.
> Maybe something similar could be implemented for JOSM.

<opensource-troll>Please make sure the html loaded into webkit falls
back to javascript if the right flash plugin isn't installed, I
believe there's some way to detect that</opensource-troll>

Cheers