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Web Map Production
Introduction
Technology changes rapidly and not always in ways we can predict. Many
years ago, while in graduate school at Penn State, I began exploring this new-
fangled thing called JavaScript. Everything I was hearing about it was largely
negative. Conventional wisdom was that learning JavaScript was likely a
waste of time. It did not work in all Web browsers. Even in the browsers
where it could work, many people intentionally disabled it. Programmers
ridiculed JavaScript for not being a “real” language—as JavaScript is not
compiled. Macromedia Flash (which is now Adobe Flash) was heralded
as the future of online inter ...