Web Semantics1 TL;DR: “machines” use the HTML structure of Web pages to enable the coherent transmission of the document content’s meaning to the user. Maps and locations are not currently reflected in HTML’s structure, nor browser rendering engines, and so … Continue reading
As an active developer of the OpenLayers mapping library, I have been working a lot on performance improvements in the rendering pipeline. Performance is usually good, but there are corner cases where the user experience is negatively affected by an unresponsive user interface. There is a new browser technology, OffscreenCanvas, which allows rendering in web workers that run in parallel to the main thread. Unfortunately it is not widely supported in mainstream browsers. In this post, I am going to show how rendering performance in OpenLayers could benefit from OffscreenCanvas. Continue reading
Progressive Enhancement is at the heart of the Web. The Maps for HTML Community Group is making PE work for maps.
