[OSM-talk] Leaflet - a new open source JavaScript library for maps by CloudMade
Paul Hartmann
phaaurlt at googlemail.com
Sun May 15 20:27:54 BST 2011
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 14:34, Vladimir Agafonkin
> <vagafonkin at cloudmade.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm Leaflet lead developer at CloudMade and I'll be happy to hear what you
>> think and answer any questions about the library here. :)
>
> This library is very heavy on the GPU (as opposed to google maps),
> which makes it really slow in e.g. vmware without GPU acceleration,
> and presumably on platforms that don't have a GPU.
>
> I've seen this before e.g. with some jQuery animations, which are
> really slow without a GPU.
>
> OpenLayers and Google Maps don't suffer from the same problem.
The animations are awesome though. On my system, they work in Chrome, but not in Firefox 3.6 or Opera 11.01 browser.
Normally I'd say it is good to have a little competition, but wouldn't it be so much easier to fork OL and rewrite the parts you don't like? A "friendly fork" could contribute some code upstream occasionally.
Paul
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