[OpenLayers-Users] Different behavior of WFS layer in IE 7 andFirefox

[Yingqi Tang]

So basically if I have a WMS/WFS which supports EPSG:900913 then it should
just work on GMaps, correct?

On Dec 18, 2007 1:39 PM, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 08:19:35AM +1100, bradleyspencer wrote:
> > Christian,
>
> (I'm Christopher. If you like, you can shorten that to Chris.)
>
> > I have been able to overlay vectors from a WFS request over GoogleMaps
> using
> > default EPSG:4326 in IE7 quite OK. When doing this in FF it is overlayed
> but
> > is clearly not in the right position/orientation/scale therefore
> projection
> > problem).
> >
> > I have not used sphericalMercator as I need to overlay data from WMS
> > services that do not support EPSG:900913.
> >
> > CubeWerx supports this projection but other remote services that I am
> using
> > do not so I am intending to cascade through CubeWerx WMS to handle this
> > projection.
> >
> > But I do not understand why if it works in IE it does not also work in
> FF
> > the same?
>
> Because Firefox and IE use totally different rendering engines -- and to
> make it work in FF, we have to accept a 40% performance decrease. Given
> the option, we decided against supporting it, and instead pursued
> spherical mercator, which also solved the problems of overlaying WMS
> data. (Since overlaying WMS data on Google doesn't actually work without
> spherical mercator either.)
>
> Regards,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> MetaCarta
>
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