[OpenLayers-Users] DOCTYPE declaration breaks IE (all versions)

[David Martin]

Thanks Mark - yes I understand that removing the doctype sets the page
in quirks mode and it does stuff up some of the css however with it set
this creates the error. Some of the elements on the pages need the
doctype settings but as said this creates the error in IE.

I cannot understand why you are getting a 404 I just tested it and it is
working just fine.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Prins, drs. M.C. (Mark) [mailto:m.c.prins at minlnv.nl] 
Sent: Friday, 17 October 2008 5:27 PM
To: users at openlayers.org
Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] DOCTYPE declaration breaks IE (all
versions)

 

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: users-bounces at openlayers.org 
> [mailto:users-bounces at openlayers.org] Namens David Martin
> Verzonden: vrijdag 17 oktober 2008 8:17
> Aan: users at openlayers.org
> Onderwerp: [OpenLayers-Users] DOCTYPE declaration breaks IE 
> (all versions)
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>  
> 
> I have been working on a very strange issue that has taken me 
> a few days to find. The issue is I have found it and now have 
> no idea how I can fix it. It is reproducible and I have 
> published two pages one with and one without the error. You 
> need to use IE to find it as FF, Opera and others seem to work.
> 
>  
> 
> The application uses OL to output Google driving directions 
> using a vector layer and allows users to select various base 
> layers and/or select from a number of poi wms layers. 
> 
>  
> 
> The problem is that with IE when a your switch layers the 
> extent bounds of the OL changes and moves the vector line to 
> the wrong spot. Now this only happens when you specify an 
> XHTML doctype in the header of the page. 
> 
>  
> 
> The examples 
> http://www.exploroz.com/Places/OLDirections_DT.aspx?from=Perth
> &to=Albany once this is loaded change the To address to Perth 
> and hit go then move across the various layers you will see 
> the extents on the Google layers goes strange and the DD line 
> is in the wrong place. If it does not fail try change the to 
> address to something else like Adelaide and try again.
> 
>  
> 
> The example without the XHTML doc type and exactly the same 
> code is 
> http://www.exploroz.com/Places/Directions_DT.aspx?from=Perth&t
> o=Albany you can hit this all day and it will not fail.  
> However some of the style elements will not display correctly.

This page is generating a 404 error for me

> 
> Any help or ideas?
> 

Without having looked at your code; 
Specifying the doctype and and/or xml prolog changes the rendering
behaviour from strict to quirks mode (or the other way around) for IE;
this will mess up many css options.

See eg. : http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/quirks-mode.html or
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/quirksmode.html

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