[OpenLayers-Dev] Editing bug with IE

Wed Mar 28 16:07:34 EDT 2007

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:19:39PM +0200, Eric Lemoine wrote:
> On 3/26/07, Eric Lemoine <Eric.Lemoine at camptocamp.com> wrote:
> >On 3/26/07, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:34:41AM +0200, Eric Lemoine wrote:
> >> > Hi
> >> >
> >> > If you add
> >> >
> >> > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> >> > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
> >> >
> >> > at the top of examples/editingtoolbar.html, editing behaves strangely:
> >> > the geometry displays in the top/left corner as opposed to under the
> >> > mouse pointer.
> >> >
> >> > IE bug? OL bug?
> >>
> >> Not a known OL bug, but I could be convinced. With a patch before we hit
> >> RC, I'd take it for 2.4, but without it, it'd probably wait for 2.5
> >> (since the workaround -- change yourdoctype -- is so simple for most use
> >> cases).
> >
> >I haven't actually found a working "change your doctype" solution --
> >only a rather radical "suppress your doctype" one.
> >
> >> I've opened ticket #564 to track this.
> 
> Christopher,
> 
> Any idea on where to start from to debug that thing?

Never touched VML support in OpenLayers. I would investigate VML's
behavior under different doctypes, and see if you can reproduce the bug
outside OpenLayers with the same VML, or if you can determine the
mouseposition under a different doctype and see if that is the problem.

Really though, I have no clue.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta