Mike Williams wrote:
> Wasn't it Garthan who wrote:
>   
>> He wanted an auto close on mouse out unless I misread
>> but then again first steps first.
>>     
>
> Close on mouseout of marker is easy. The hard part is keeping it open if 
> the mouse goes out of the marker and onto the info window, then closes 
> it on infowindow mouseout. 
basically you make the close action a delaid one... then if you have a 
mouseover
event firing (on the infowindow) cancel it and send it again with 
another delay
> Markus needs it to stay open because he's got 
> clickable content in the infowindow.
>   
yup....
> It would be a bit awkward for the user to do it with the Google 
> infowindow anyway because it's so difficult to slide the mouse from the 
> marker, up the infowindow stem without doing a mouseout.
>   
Yes I agree the idea is a bit awkward...
> I think the best that can be done without an awful lot of hard work 
> would be to open the infowindow on mouseover and leave it open until 
> something else happens. That "something else" would include things like 
> map clicks and map mouseouts.
>
>   
that would be my recommendation or.. to right out the info in a place 
the user can scan easily
like in a side bar.
> I personally think that mouseover infowindow opening looks rather ugly 
> in Google Maps because of the auto pan.
>   
right I agree...


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