Markers and MouseEvent

[Gabriel Svennerberg]

According to the API documentation when you click a marker it will
return an Event. This seems strange to me, why not return a MouseEvent
object for all the markers mouse events? That way the API would work
the same way regardless of what type of overlay you click.

Best regards,
Gabriel Svennerberg

[Rossko]

> According to the API documentation when you click a marker it will
> return an Event. This seems strange to me, why not return a MouseEvent
> object for all the markers mouse events? That way the API would work
> the same way regardless of what type of overlay you click.

I'm not sure what your complaint is. Don't know where in the docs you
are looking, but it doesn't say that ONLY clicking Markers returns
MouseEvent.
For example,
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/reference.html#Polygon
look down to Events

[Esa]

I agree.

I remember that Marker used to return MouseEvent by 'click'. Now it
returns a browser specific object. Also MouseEvent used to have a
documented 'pixel' property as well. Now only Map is returning 'pixel'
but that is undocumented.

'mouseover' and 'mouseout' return objects like 'click' does.

[Esa]

> it doesn't say that ONLY clicking Markers returns
> MouseEvent.

Just the opposite. Marker is the only overlay that does not return
MouseEvent. According to documentation and in real life.

MouseEvent object is returned by mouse events of:
- Polyline
- Polygon
- Circle
- Rectangle

but not by Marker. Clicking the above listed overlays also causes a
Map 'click' which returns a full MouseObject with 'pixel' property as
well. Clicking on Marker prevents Map 'click' event.

[Rossko]

> Just the opposite. Marker is the only overlay that does not return
> MouseEvent. According to documentation and in real life.

aha, I completely misunderstood