Scope and Limitations

Wax is not a mapping API like Modest Maps or OpenLayers. Neither is it a application-level higher library like GeoExt or even higher like gxp. It’s a library that adds common utilities to minimal mapping libraries and aims to give developers and designers ultimate control and flexibility.

Here are some of the principles of Wax:

• The library does not try to ‘wrap’ any API of any toolkit, like Mapstraction tries to do.
• Wax doesn’t add core mapping functionality, like vector display, that should be in the core of a mapping library.
• No dependencies are required beyond the API integrated against.
• All presentation is stored in controls.css, which is treated as a theme API and versioned.
• Most controls in Wax are written to interact with single-layer non-vector maps.