markers with animated gifs don't work in api v3

[uno]

hello, i'm currently switching from api v2 to v3. in v2, i've used
animated gifs here & there, but in v3 the animation doesn't work on
the normal satellite and road map. (however, they work in street view
mode). is this a known issue or did support for animatited gif stop in
v3? thanks for tips, uno

[DJGorman]

I'd be interested in knowing what happened with this as well. My
animated gifs were working in V3 up until sometime over the past
week. Did a recent update break it?

[geoco...@gmail.com]

On Mar 3, 10:25 am, DJGorman <dan.j.gor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd be interested in knowing what happened with this as well.  My
> animated gifs were working in V3 up until sometime over the past
> week.  Did a recent update break it?

What version of the API are you using? If it is the development
version, try reverting to v3.3...

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/basics.html#Versioning

-- Larry

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> > hello, i'm currently switching from api v2 to v3. in v2, i've used
> > animated gifs here & there, but in v3 the animation doesn't work on
> > the normal satellite and road map. (however, they work in street view
> > mode). is this a known issue or did support for animatited gif stop in

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[Chad Killingsworth]

Sure did: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-maps-js-api-v3/LeDqN1ZwY9g/discussion

As a workaround, try setting draggable: true on your markers.

Chad Killingsworth

[DJGorman]

I've noticed that you can get animated GIF markers to work if you use
the MarkerImage overload of Marker.setIcon instead of the String:

Instead of:
myMarker.setIcon(myIconUrl);
try:
var myIcon = new google.maps.MarkerImage(myIconUrl);
myMarker.setIcon(myIcon);

On Mar 3, 10:25 am, DJGorman <dan.j.gor...@gmail.com> wrote:

[2sb]

Amazing that i found this link. For me it has stopped working now in 2013 :) 

Draggle works but i can't make my icon draggble because it is a radar image on a particular location :)

[Barry Hunter]

Guessing, try setting {optimized:false} as part of MarkerOptions. 

optimized is turned on by default, and renders the markers on a Canvas where possible, animated gives probably dont work on a canvas. 

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[geoco...@gmail.com]

On Apr 10, 5:50 pm, Barry Hunter <barrybhun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Guessing, try setting {optimized:false} as part of MarkerOptions.
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> optimized is turned on by default, and renders the markers on a Canvas
> where possible, animated gives probably dont work on a canvas.
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From the (current) documentation:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/reference#MarkerOptions
optimized | boolean | Optimization renders many markers as a single
static element. Optimized rendering is enabled by default. Disable
optimized rendering for animated GIFs or PNGs, or when each marker
must be rendered as a separate DOM element (advanced usage only).

-- Larry

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> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:13 PM, 2sb <2sbs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Amazing that i found this link. For me it has stopped working now in 2013
> > :)
> > Draggle works but i can't make my icon draggble because it is a radar
> > image on a particular location :)
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> > On Thursday, March 3, 2011 11:30:19 AM UTC-8, Chad Killingsworth wrote:
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> >> Sure did:https://groups.google.**com/d/topic/google-maps-js-**
> >> api-v3/LeDqN1ZwY9g/discussion<https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-maps-js-api-v3/LeDqN1ZwY9g/d...>