[OpenLayers-Dev] doctype in examples

Tue May 31 11:02:46 EDT 2011

Ticketed as http://trac.osgeo.org/openlayers/ticket/3333, marked Pullup.

Committed to trunk with http://trac.osgeo.org/openlayers/changeset/12032

Andreas.

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 7:48 PM,  <christopher.schmidt at nokia.com> wrote:
>
> 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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