Set a default maxResolution. Theres' a couple reasons for this: caching of tile requests, aligning OpenLayers with Google Maps zoom levels, and saving an initial calculation that most people won't need. For the old behavior, add:

{maxResolution:null} 
to your OpenLayers.Map() call.


git-svn-id: http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers@618 dc9f47b5-9b13-0410-9fdd-eb0c1a62fdaf

lib/OpenLayers/Map.js

@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ OpenLayers.Map.prototype = {
     size: null,
 
     // float
-    maxResolution: null, // degrees per pixel
+    maxResolution: 1.40625, // degrees per pixel 
+                            // Default is whole world in 256 pixels, from GMaps
 
     // DOMElement: the div that our map lives in
     div: null,