[OpenLayers-Dev] doctype in examples

Mon May 30 13:48:15 EDT 2011

On May 30, 2011, at 12:45 PM, ext Tim Schaub wrote:

> On 5/30/11 8:57 AM, Eric Lemoine wrote:
>> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Andreas Hocevar<ahocevar at opengeo.org>  wrote:
>>> Hey,
>>> 
>>> it seems that with the XHTML doctype still used in many of our
>>> examples, IE9 does not do a good vector rendering job. It will choose
>>> the VML renderer, and do some things like label alignment really wrong
>>> (see http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/vector-features-with-text.html).
>>> When the doctype is changed to<!DOCTYPE HTML>, the same example
>>> renders perfectly well in IE9, using the SVG renderer.
>>> 
>>> So my question: would developers agree to change the doctype of all
>>> our examples (at least the ones that continue to work fine after the
>>> change), and include this change in 2.11?
>>> 
>>> I'm +1.
>> 
>> +1
>> 
>> 
> 
> Yes please.
> 

I'm fine with that. I'll pull it up into 2.11.

-- Chris

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