openlayers/openlayers — pull request #23 by tmcw (2011-10-25 21:23:27+00:00)
Title: Improve maxExtent documentation

I've seen many, many users misusing maxExtent when what they want is restrictedExtent, or a maxExtent that changes tile loading - for maps that are rendered 'as if' the world exists but a subset is rendered (aka, most spherical mercator new-world maps).

I think a quick change to the documentation might help this situation a little bit, to steer users with the restrictedExtent use case to the right place instead of dying in maxExtent-land.