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]
>
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