flag on the Events object is set to true. This ends up meaning that we save a
lot of unneccesary getMousePosition calls because (for example) the layer
doesn't need to include the .xy property. In addition, we add in speed
improvements via caching to the getMousePosition, courtesy the work from
pgiraud (which was worked on further by tcoulter) -- this results in
significantly improved getMousePosition performance improvements in 'real life'
situations that are more like the cases that people use OpenLayers, with a
higher number of containing divs (and also clearly demonstrate a gain in
performance even in the simple case.)
The end result is:
* In typical map movement over the map, (n / n+1) fewer calls to
getMousePosition, where n is the number of active layers when dragging over
the map.
* In the simple case, 40% faster getMousePosition performance -- and in
more complex cases, significantly more performance improvements.
To drop the former improvement, which may affect some applications (as
described in the includeXY documentation) simply set:
OpenLayers.Events.prototype.includeXY = true;
This will restore the 'every element has an xy property always' behavior
that was the case beore this patch.
r=me,tschaub, work by pgiraud related to (See #1509), and (Closes#1459)
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