[OpenLayers-Dev] text labels in IE8

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 11:20:18AM -0400, Mike Adair wrote:
> Yes, I'm testing against trunk (and also the OL2.8 branch).  When I was 
> doing these tests, the compressed file coming from openlayers/dev/ had a 
> revision tag of 9309 in it, which is just before the 2.8 RC1 release I 
> believe.
> 
> Testing again this morning I found that when the example is served from 
> my local MS4W Apache, it is working correctly, but served from a local 
> Oracle Application Server instance the labels are placed incorrectly.   
> I'll investigate that further.

Possibly a different doctype is being placed on the doc wrapped in
Oracle.

> Mike
> 
> Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> >On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:19:01AM -0400, Julien-Samuel Lacroix wrote:
> >  
> >>It would help to know where the files are coming from.
> >>
> >>Is the compressed file on openlayers.org [1] built from SVN or from a 
> >>release?
> >>    
> >
> >That is built from SVN every time a new checkin is made.
> >
> >  
> >>Do you use trunk or a sandbox?
> >>    
> >
> >Since he's said he's using /dev/, he's using trunk.
> >
> >-- Chris
> >
> >  
> >>Julien
> >>
> >>[1] http://openlayers.org/dev/OpenLayers.js
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Mike Adair wrote:
> >>    
> >>>So I've been banging my head on IE for long enough on this, I'd like to 
> >>>know if anyone else has any ideas...
> >>>
> >>>I'm trying to get the new vector labeling working in IE8 and to figure 
> >>>out why it's not working locally.  All test cases are in IE8 
> >>>compatibility mode, Quirks mode.
> >>>
> >>>If I go to the examples page at: 
> >>>http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/vector-features-with-text.html  it 
> >>>works without a problem, labels show up aligned with the vector features.
> >>>If I load the example served from my local machine (from an MS4W 
> >>>instance), the labels all appear in the top-left corner. (both default 
> >>>single-file build and loading individual files)
> >>>If I load the example served from my local machine  but with the 
> >>>OpenLayers single file build at http://openlayers.org/dev/OpenLayers.js 
> >>>it works properly.
> >>>
> >>>Doing a diff on the generated VML shows that for the one that works, the 
> >>><ovl:textbox> node has extra style properties of:
> >>>"MARGIN-TOP: 88.875pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 141.375pt; TOP: auto; LEFT: auto"
> >>>which appears to make the labels show up in the correct place.  I've 
> >>>searched the WML renderer code and I can't find anywhere that is adding 
> >>>those properties
> >>>
> >>>So I guess the questions are:
> >>>- what's the difference between a local single file build and the one 
> >>>server from openlayer.org?
> >>>- anyone know what is adding those extra style properties?
> >>>
> >>>Thanks for any pointers,
> >>>
> >>>Mike
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>-- 
> >>Julien-Samuel Lacroix
> >>Mapgears
> >>http://www.mapgears.com/
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> >
> >  
> 
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