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Our Biggest Release Yet, Mobile and API.

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We are super excited (and a little relieved) to finally have our new version of Scribble Maps out. There is a lot to talk about. We have rolled out a new basic editor as well as a full API . From Flash To HTML5/Javascript While many of our users may not understand the change in technology, the implications of this are very large. Moving from flash to HTML5/Javascript was not something that was particularly easy and especially because we want to keep the experience as similar as possible to what made the original Scribble Maps so popular. We wanted to make the experience of the new version consistent enough that people wouldn't even know we essentially rebuilt everything from the ground up. Things as simple as custom cursors were a challenge because we wanted to maintain cross browser comparability. So the new version works all the way back to IE7. After Google announced that they would no longer support the flash version of their Maps API we decided on a couple of core things