[OpenLayers-Users] Mercator projections in OpenLayers

[Nick Whitelegg]

Hello everyone,

Are there any plans to be able to set your desired projection in OpenLayers? 
My question relates to the OpenStreetMap rednerer (Freemap) at 
http://nick.dev.openstreetmap.org/openlayers/ - as it stands, openlayers 
grabs the tiles in non-Mercator (WGS84?) projection. Are there plans to allow 
a developer to tell OpenLayers to fetch the tiles in Mercator instead, 
similar to how the maps.civicactions.net tile engine does it? Or, do users 
have to change their map renderer to accept a bounding box of 
Mercator-projected, rather than standard latitudes and longitudes?

IMO this would be a very useful feature to have, rather than rely on mapserver 
or whatever to do it - it would reduce dependency on the back end.

Nick