mousemove and mouseover are coming in this week's release. On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:26 AM, maplab <[email protected]> wrote:
> Google API Managers: > > After six grueling hours of hard work trying to convert a V2 module to > V3, I finally realize that there is no such thing as "mousemove" and > "mouseover" on the map canvas in API V3. Wow, this really makes things > hard! > > I assume from reading some of the posts that Google doesn't think that > folks need these handlers because they don't apply on touch screen > phones. Now I think that there are some serious ambiguities about V3. > Is it ONLY for phones? I thought this was the future of the API and I > have been trying to get ahead of the curve by converting my work > sooner rather than later. > > What is a developer expected to do? - use one API for computers, and a > different one for mobile devices? What about the iPad? Will there be a > full set of handlers? > > I think it should be up to the developer to know whether they are on a > phone or a computer and program accordingly, but with only a single > API. I can't imagine maintaining all my code in two different APIs. > > Google has not included a lot in API 3. I thought this was because it > wasn't nearly finished. Now I think that certain things are expected > to to be moved to other utility libraries like "Tabbed InfoWindows", > yet how is one to know what's going where? > > I have been struggling to program industrial strength applications > with Google Maps for real companies since 2005, from no official API, > to API 1, to API 2, and now API 3. I want my code to operate on both > phones and computers. Please provide some advice and guidance. > > Extremely disgruntled, > > David Coggeshall > SFC MapLab Project > [email protected] > > -- > 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]<google-maps-js-api-v3%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en. > > -- 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=en.
