I can cook up an example later if you wish, however, I believe I have
found the solution.  Googling helped me locate this:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/javascript/3542087.htm

It appears that if an element is doesn't have a background color (and
is absolutely positioned as well???) IE 6 will not fire mouse events
for that element.  With my map I was putting divs with no background
color in the G_MAP_MARKER_MOUSE_TARGET_PANE so that I could intercept
mouse events at that level, above my content drawn in a lower pane.
As the info. in the link above suggests, I was able to get things to
work on IE 6 by putting a transparent gif within my div.  Now the div
fires events as expected.  I haven't found a better solution to this
problem - I wonder how gmaps solves this problem as I believe they are
using a div with no background color in the
G_MAP_MARKER_MOUSE_TARGET_PANE for handling mouse events on the
GMarker.

IE 6, when will you die?

On Jan 17, 1:32 pm, "warden [Andrew Leach - Maps API Guru]"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 17, 9:57 pm, "David J. Burger" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I have created a custom overlay that among other things puts a div in
> > the G_MAP_MARKER_MOUSE_TARGET_PANE to react to mouse events.  The div
> > is positioned using "absolute" positioning.  Everything works fine in
> > FF, Safari, and Chrome as I have sizing handles appear when the user
> > puts the mouse over the overlay.  However, the mouse events do not
> > fire when ran in IE 6.  Specifically the mouseover event is not firing
> > and thus the sizing handles never appear.  
>
> Please give a link which we can run in IE6.
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