[OpenLayers-Dev] Call for Volunteers: DragMarker control

[Christopher Schmidt]

Hi,

Some people have expressed interest in a DragMarker control. There's
a ticket at http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/639#comment:8 for this.
So, here's where I sit on this topic:

 * The existing patch doesn't work well in IE, where markers have an extra alpha
   image frame around them, because if you 'drag quickly', IE gets confused
   and 'drops' the marker because it went out of the marker div.
 * The DragFeature control works reasonably well, and does not have the
    same problem in IE.
 * I'm very much in favor of phasing out support for Markers in general,
   rather than adding more features to them, since most things which you
   can do with markers you can also do with features (and I think that will
   become even more the case in 2.8)
 * This code is very old, and has no tests.

So, what I would say is:

 * If someone *else* wants to act as point of contact for this code, I will
   support it.
 * In order to get this control into trunk, someone needs to apply some
   TLC: an example needs to be added, at the very least, and preferably
   a manual or automated test
 * If this happens by Apr 1, it may be possible to include in 2.9.

If this is important to you, please step up.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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