OpenStreetMap
Microsoft presented the first beta of internet Explorer 9.
What das it mean for Webmaps?
Direct2D will speed up map rendering:
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/10MapZooming/Default.html
(bing map)
opensource map:
http://www.khtml.org/iphonemap/examples/automapzoom.html
(webkit is good on that)
Hardware accelerated SVG will allow to use vectorgraphics as map overlay.
Keskustelu
Kommentti käyttäjältä marscot 17. maaliskuuta 2010 klo 13.33
very fast rendering
Kommentti käyttäjältä Pink Duck 18. maaliskuuta 2010 klo 18.28
It is not a beta, but a developer platform preview release - one every 2 months prior to the actual beta builds. It won't work on XP, so no improvement in standards for the current majority user base. If only M$ had started in 2004.