Some accompanying screenshots: http://www.marijnspeelman.nl/maps/
On Nov 19, 10:42 am, Marijn <[email protected]> wrote: > * Animate panning and zooming transitions in capable browsers. > > This feature causes a lot of zooming bugs and is in general very > quirky: > - The animation is way too slow > - When quickly zooming in, the map is first shown very small and > slowly starts matching the div size > - When zooming in 1 zoom level, the map first redraws / blinks, and > then zooms in > - When zooming in or out, our custom markers first zoom with the map, > instead of staying the same size and just repositioning. > > Tested in Chrome 4.0.249.0 & Firefox 3.5.6 on Ubuntu, and in Safari on > Mac. > > On Nov 19, 10:17 am, Ben Appleton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > We just released a new version of the JS v3 API. > > > Changes: > > > * Enable Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew. If you are a fluent in one of > > these languages, please let us know if you see layout or translation > > issues. > > > * Animate panning and zooming transitions in capable browsers. > > > * Expose a panToBounds method on Map. This will pan the map to make > > a particular LatLngBounds visible. > > > * Enable position as an additional control option. The > > google.maps.ControlPosition enum defines the possible positions as > > TOP_LEFT, TOP, TOP_RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, BOTTOM_LEFT, BOTTOM, > > BOTTOM_RIGHT. For example: > > > var myOptions = { > > zoom: 8, > > center: new google.maps.LatLng(-34.397, 150.644), > > mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP, > > scaleControl: true, > > scaleControlOptions: {position: google.maps.ControlPosition.RIGHT} > > } > > map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map_canvas"), > > myOptions); > > > * On zoom, set tiles transparent immediately to avoid seeing the > > previous image on the screen in some browsers. > > > If there are no major issues, we'll post a full announcement of this > > release in the next 24-48 hours. In the meantime, please report any > > regression issues you see in the discussion group. > > > Thanks! > > Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=.
