[OpenLayers-Dev] doctype in examples

Tue May 31 11:22:34 EDT 2011

Thanks, Andreas!

-- Chris

On May 31, 2011, at 11:02 AM, ext Andreas Hocevar wrote:

> 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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> Andreas Hocevar
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