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13 years ago It was my expectation when writing the first version of Modest Maps JS that people would have their own opinions on interaction (and indeed they do). (Over in Polymaps land there's a debate about whether the mousewheel should pan or zoom!). Even the default mouse handler is optional, and there are examples for smooth zooming and touch events already. I imagine a click/double-click handler could work the same way. I'd like to see this kind of functionality implemented as an example first and then moved to "core" functionality later.
Cross-browser click vs double-click (and tap vs double-tap) is tricky. I note you're using jQuery there, I'm surprised it doesn't handle it already but the docs even suggest that you don't use both single click and double click on the same element! http://api.jquery.com/dblclick/ (bit of a cop-out, no?) The comments offer this solution, which counts single clicks and chooses one of two callbacks: https://gist.github.com/399624 and the comments on that offer a double-click fix for IE which already (sometimes) suppresses click events if there's a fast double click (I think).
Modest Maps JS already includes some rough and ready DOM event handlers (MM.addEvent etc) to smooth things out for cross browser events (tidying up window.event, mousewheel, canceling events, etc). It seems useful to expose this functionality in addCallback for DOM events, or perhaps to promote certain DOM events into map callbacks (click, drag, wheel, etc.). I filed issue #10 for another similar request... there's no formal roadmap or milestones in play though, so it might be some time before it gets added.
(As an aside I don't know anyone using using Modest Maps JS and not using jQuery. I imagine the library could be cleaned up and compacted quite a bit if we created a jQuery fork of it. Food for thought?)
tmcw
I'm writing some functionality that requires clicks on the map (as well as double-clicks for navigation, of course). Currently I've hacked together something similar to OpenLayers in this respect, but it might be in the scope of Modest Maps itself to deal with the problem of browsers registering dblclick and click 'unusually' in different browsers, and for click events triggering before dblclick events.