[OpenLayers-Dev] [crschmidt@metacarta.com: [OSM-dev] Faster Commercial Layers]

[Erik Uzureau]

OK! Report is in from the field. I am and am not crazy. Lovely.

smoothDragging *does* work in IE, both in ie7 and ie6.

Thanks to Bob and Guillaume for the quick turnaround on the testing!

Erik

On 11/23/07, Erik Uzureau <erik.uzureau at metacarta.com> wrote:
> So Im running this example over again today and now it seems like it
> *is* working.
>
> Can anyone out there on the list run this:
>
> http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/smoothDragging.html
>
> in IE6 and or IE7 and verify that it's ok?
>
> thanks up front,
> e
>
> ps. if you're getting a gmaps error, that should go away shortly....
> i've updated the html file in svn but sometimes it takes a while to
> get propagated
>
> On 11/21/07, Paul Spencer <pspencer at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:
> > Chris,
> >
> > this works really well for me in firefox on macosx.  Excellent find.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > On 21-Nov-07, at 8:20 AM, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> >
> > > Sigh. Sending emails at 3:45 is worse than committing at 3:30. This
> > > went
> > > to the osm-dev instead of ol-dev list.
> > >
> > > -- Chris
> > >
> > > ----- Forwarded message from Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com
> > > > -----
> > >
> > > From: Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com>
> > > To: dev at openstreetmap.org
> > > Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:49:34 -0500
> > > Subject: [OSM-dev] Faster Commercial Layers
> > >
> > > The three commonly used commercial layers -- Google, VirtualEarth, and
> > > Yahoo -- now each have a mechanism using the internals of their
> > > respective APIs to grab faster ways to move map tiles around.
> > >
> > > http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/spherical-mercator.html now
> > > demonstrates this.
> > >
> > > Erik reports that IE is throwing an error. Since is it 3:45 in the
> > > morning, I'm going to go to sleep now, get an early start and try to
> > > hack on the IE issue first thing before work, and get it resolved.
> > >
> > > In the meantime, Firefox browsers might be interested in checking the
> > > uRL above and checking out the other APIs.
> > >
> > > (Note that Yahoo/VE both have weird ideas about what to do when
> > > viewing
> > > the whole world -- best to zoom in a couple notches.)
> > >
> > > Additionally, there is an option on the EventPane layer class:
> > >
> > > {Boolean} smoothDragPan determines whether non-public/internal API
> > > methods are used for better performance while dragging EventPane
> > > layers.
> > > When not in sphericalMercator mode, the smoother dragging doesn’t
> > > actually move north/south directly with the number of pixels moved,
> > > resulting in a slight offset when you drag your mouse north south with
> > > this option on.  If this visual disparity bothers you, you should turn
> > > this option off, or use spherical mercator.  Default is on.
> > >
> > > Feedback welcome; I'm hoping that at least some if it will be positive
> > > :)
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > --
> > > Christopher Schmidt
> > > MetaCarta
> > >
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