Option to turn off animation of Layer.VirtualEarth

[ahocevar]

The VirtualEarth layer has a zoom animation which does not match the zooming experience of other layer types. The attached patch adds an option to turn this animation off.

[crschmidt]

oh, yay, they finally added an option to turn this off.

(I last looked in v3, so this may not be recent ;))

Shoudl we maybe default to 'off' (even thought that's a behavior change) since the current behavior is buggy?

[ahocevar]

I have no strong opinion on either, but it may be possible that there are people use VE in OL because it is animated.

[tschaub]

Looks good. Thanks for the find. Please commit.

If we hear on the list that others want this to be true by default, we can change the default. I'm happy either way.

[tschaub]

Actually, crschmidt's comment makes me wonder if we should do a quick check for SetAnimationEnabled before calling it. We can't control what version people have loaded, and we might start failing if someone is using a version that doesn't have it. Andreas, how about adding a quick check before calling it?

[crschmidt]

Well, we don't work with v3 anymore, right? Or maybe we still do... anyway, v3 doesn't exist, so I'm happy with it going in without a check, though adding it is always polite and may help save us later on down the road.

[ahocevar]

(In [9696]) added option to turn of animation. r=crschmidt,tschaub (closes #2286)

[ahocevar]

added with check, as proposed by tschaub.