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December 21, 2007
You'd hardly know it by going to maps.yahoo.com, but Yahoo! Maps are now pure JavaScript instead of a hybrid of Flash and JavaScript. Lead Maps Developer Mirek Grymuza and the Maps team have done an amazing job of seamlessly moving the Maps client over resulting in at least double the performance of the previous Flash-based version.
The good news for developers is that the new Yahoo! Maps client uses an enhanced version of our Maps AJAX API which will be available to developers in 2008. This substantial upgrade of the Maps API will provide access to all the overlay components available in the consumer client and will give developers significant overlay flexibility. It's going to be a great new year for Yahoo! Maps users and developers.
Jason Levitt
Posted at December 21, 2007 11:24 AM
Please fix the get a new API page!
Posted by: Vagif Kuliyev at December 23, 2007 12:12 PM
Hello, you write "You'd hardly know it by going to maps.yahoo.com, but Yahoo! Maps are now pure JavaScript instead of a hybrid of Flash and JavaScript.". Actually the difference is like night and day for those of us who keep Flash switched off by default. I used to get blank spaces when I accidentally encountered the old-style Yahoo maps. Now I can actually see them.
By the way, although I can see the official Yahoo maps, I often get a blank screen when I encounter maps built with the Yahoo Maps API. i believe it's because your Maps API code contains CSS and other syntax errors. I see a whole bunch of these errors when I enable the error console in Opera.
Posted by: Rahul Dhesi at December 23, 2007 6:20 PM
Hey make a map about Langrood city in giulan-iran!
THANKS A LOT
BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: amir at December 25, 2007 11:36 PM
Can you please make your finance charts to be based on pure javascript as well instead of flash technology? Your charts are not usable right now. Please make the change so I can go back to my favorite charts.
Thanks,
Someone who cares.
Posted by: Misak Boulatian at December 27, 2007 8:54 AM
The "Get an App ID" link seems to be down. Any idea where I can get one?
Posted by: Jonah at December 28, 2007 9:35 AM
Hi, there's a problem with one of the machines getting https requests (somewhere between you and the machine, they're getting denied). The good news is that you can go in via http and it should work fine. http://developer.yahoo.com/wsregapp/
I've updated the various links on the site to point to that location.
Posted by: jr at December 28, 2007 2:23 PM
thx for the great stuff. keep up yourg nice work
Posted by: Markus Richter at January 9, 2008 3:44 AM
The old yahoo map was excellent, can I access it again? Thanks, Randy
Posted by: Randy at January 20, 2008 9:51 PM
I love Yahoo's maps and all the technical updates
Posted by: Vectorpedia(Rick) at February 25, 2008 5:46 PM
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