[OpenLayers-Dev] Examples behave different in IE due to Quirks Mode

Wed Jun 11 05:05:01 EDT 2008

Hi,

I just encountered a strange viewing experience of many of the  
examples. Try e.g. http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/example.html 
in IE and compare with other browsers: IE zooms to zoom level 0, other 
browsers to zoom level 0.

After some investigation, i saw that the map viewport is 510x254px in 
IE, and 512x256px in other browsers. Now if you add a DOCTYPE to the 
html that forces the browser into standards compliant mode (e.g. 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">), the viewport size 
will be 512x256px in all browsers.

So the reason why this causes different zoom levels is that the default 
for Map.maxResolution is 1.40625, which fits 360 deg into 256 px. If we 
have less px, a map of the world won't fit.

Should we change the examples to use standards compliant mode?

Regards,
Andreas.