The guys at the maps API team wanted to have control over the
infowindow size, so they implemented an algorithm that adjusts the
infowindow size dependant on the size of the browser window - bummer.
Don't ask me why because I cannot tell you the reason. I also cannot
tell you how this algorithm looks like and which values for the width
and the height it determines, because they refuse to make it public,
i.e. these values are their secret.
So to determine the proper size of infowindows is always like playing
roulette against this unknown algorithm: I'd have to open and close
the infowindows constantly, just as constantly I must resize the
browser window at different monitor resolutions.
And all this just to finally find out some values for the infowindow
size that fit (never exactly, only in some degrees) in different
brower window sizes.
I'm familiar with this maps stuff now for a few years and already made
infowindows for the v2 maps API - always without any problem.
Sorry to say that, but this looks like pure chicanery - paternalism.
They just wanted to take the control over the infowindow size out of
particular preferences - and they have done it ...
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The guys at the maps API team wanted to have control over the
infowindow size, so they implemented an algorithm that adjusts the
infowindow size dependant on the size of the browser window - bummer.
Don't ask me why because I cannot tell you the reason. I also cannot
tell you how this algorithm looks like and which values for the width
and the height it determines, because they refuse to make it public,
i.e. these values are their secret.
So to determine the proper size of infowindows is always like playing
roulette against this unknown algorithm: I'd have to open and close
the infowindows constantly, just as constantly I must resize the
browser window at different monitor resolutions.
<snip>
Sorry to say that, but this looks like pure chicanery - paternalism.
They just wanted to take the control over the infowindow size out of
particular preferences - and they have done it ...