Google Maps Platform: New Earth API Developer's Guide and DOM Articles

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New Earth API Developer's Guide and DOM Articles

Monday, August 31, 2009

Developer's Guide

Sections are now organized by topic, as opposed to level of difficulty

Older topics such as balloons and events have been revisited and rewritten; important concepts are covered in more depth and some subtleties have been formally addressed. Some older, but very important, topics such as object containers now get their own full sections of the documentation.

New topics such as tour playback, Sky/Mars/Moon, and general JavaScript debugging tips are now discussed in detail in the new Developer's Guide. Previously, the only available resources for some of these topics were sample code and the API reference.

Articles

DOM Part I: An Introduction to the Earth API Document Object Model
This article provides an introduction to the W3C Document Object Model (DOM) specification and discusses the parallels between the Earth API's KML DOM access methods and web browsers' HTML DOM methods.

DOM Part II: Using the GEarthExtensions Utility Library for Easy DOM Manipulation
In this article, we'll learn about the GEarthExtensions utility library's method of simplifying DOM traversals and how we can easily perform common DOM search and manipulation operations on entire KML document trees using this method.