[OpenLayers-Users] [BUG] Openlayers in Firefox as XHTML

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Monday 29 Jan 2007 14:29, Dipl.-Inf.(FH) Carsten Eider wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I am working on a meshup of Openlayers and XForms embedded into FireFox
> 2.0.0.1
> In oder to be able to use XForms in Firefox, the uses file has to have
> the extension ".xhtml".
> If I do so, OpenLayers.Layers.Canvas doesn't work any more.
> The usage of this object results in
>
> Error: this.canvas.getContext is not a function
> Source http://www.openlayers.org/api/OpenLayers.js
> Line: 330

I'm guessing this is because the canvas tag is not part of the official XHTML 
specification, and when firefox is parsing xhtml in strict mode it doesn't 
pick up on the canvas tag. I'm not sure what to do about it though - maybe 
try the firefox mailing lists?

Nick