Magic Mouse and Google Maps

The scrolling up and down is a very useful feature of the Apple Magic
Mouse. You would not want to turn this off. But it is a bit of a
nuisance on Google Maps because it is so easy to indadvertedly make
the slightest up or down wipe that unwantedly zooms the map in or out.
Even if one is wanting to zoom by this mouse, it goes too quickly, not
well controllable. I use the bar + - control they have on the top left
as much as possible instead.

No good turning javascript off (in browser) because then the map does
not work at all right. Google should adjust their javascript.

 

My Magic Mouse continuously doing unexpected things like that, and not
just in Google Maps, is one reason I stopped using it. Sore wrists and
tendons is another.

I now use a decade-old Logitech mouse with scroll wheel. It doesn't do
any of Apple's multi-finger gestures but I can easily live without those
if it means not having to use the awful magic mouse.

 

Well, I kind of like this mouse... but now and then for some things I
plug in my other most wonderful Apple Pro Mouse, the tethered white
all a big button mouse.

There are some things you don't want the sensitive horiz scrolling for
with the MM but you can turn this off I think? But on the Google site
it is surely the javascript that is a major contributor to the trouble
i mentioned. In fact, many websites using lots of js are really ugly
in their jumpiness generally.

 

<shrug> I have no problem at all with javascript jumpiness on any
website with my mouse. The common denominator here seems to be the magic
mouse, not the website coding.

 

Been using a MM since they were first released. Never had a bit of
trouble with mine-- like it a lot, very convenient.

 

You might like this. Some of the people I work with do, anyway.
It's very well made.

http://mmfixed.com

Billy Y..

 

I use a wrist pad I got at Staples or Best Buy, it seems to serve the
same purpose.

 

Using GM with a trackpad is easier than with the MM which is too
sensitive to touch when used with GM (or Google Earth)

Indeed I've changed Google Earth to match Google Maps zoom direction (on
GM it is selectable ) so I don't get confused between the two.

The MM has been relegated to the TV room (with the atrocious Apple
keyboard).