So Im running this example over again today and now it seems like it *is* working.
Can anyone out there on the list run this: http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/smoothDragging.html in IE6 and or IE7 and verify that it's ok? thanks up front, e ps. if you're getting a gmaps error, that should go away shortly.... i've updated the html file in svn but sometimes it takes a while to get propagated On 11/21/07, Paul Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris, > > this works really well for me in firefox on macosx. Excellent find. > > Paul > > On 21-Nov-07, at 8:20 AM, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > > > Sigh. Sending emails at 3:45 is worse than committing at 3:30. This > > went > > to the osm-dev instead of ol-dev list. > > > > -- Chris > > > > ----- Forwarded message from Christopher Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ----- > > > > From: Christopher Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:49:34 -0500 > > Subject: [OSM-dev] Faster Commercial Layers > > > > The three commonly used commercial layers -- Google, VirtualEarth, and > > Yahoo -- now each have a mechanism using the internals of their > > respective APIs to grab faster ways to move map tiles around. > > > > http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/spherical-mercator.html now > > demonstrates this. > > > > Erik reports that IE is throwing an error. Since is it 3:45 in the > > morning, I'm going to go to sleep now, get an early start and try to > > hack on the IE issue first thing before work, and get it resolved. > > > > In the meantime, Firefox browsers might be interested in checking the > > uRL above and checking out the other APIs. > > > > (Note that Yahoo/VE both have weird ideas about what to do when > > viewing > > the whole world -- best to zoom in a couple notches.) > > > > Additionally, there is an option on the EventPane layer class: > > > > {Boolean} smoothDragPan determines whether non-public/internal API > > methods are used for better performance while dragging EventPane > > layers. > > When not in sphericalMercator mode, the smoother dragging doesn’t > > actually move north/south directly with the number of pixels moved, > > resulting in a slight offset when you drag your mouse north south with > > this option on. If this visual disparity bothers you, you should turn > > this option off, or use spherical mercator. Default is on. > > > > Feedback welcome; I'm hoping that at least some if it will be positive > > :) > > > > Regards, > > -- > > Christopher Schmidt > > MetaCarta > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dev mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev > > > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > > -- > > Christopher Schmidt > > MetaCarta > > _______________________________________________ > > Dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ > |Paul Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ > |Chief Technology Officer | > |DM Solutions Group Inc http://www.dmsolutions.ca/ | > +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
