[OpenLayers-Users] Problems with Internet Explorer: Digitizing tools, Loading GML/KML files, ...

[Sebastian Paasche]

Hi OpenLayers users & developers,

I am preparing an OpenLayers application to be used on a local system without 
server interaction. Basically, it should load GML/KML data from the file 
system and demonstrate the use of the digitizing tools. Everything is based 
on OL 2.7.0.

Files to be loaded: 
- KML file, ~700 KBytes
- GML File, ~50KBytes.

The KML file is set as base layer. On top of this, an editable vector layer is 
defined. 

My questions/issues:
1. Everything works as expected in Firefox 2.0. But it does not in Internet 
Explorer 7. Experienced misbehavior: KML/GML from file is not displayed at 
all. Geometries drawn with the digitizing tools are not displayed after a 
drawing is completed (after double-click). Additionally, the red boundary of 
the BBox Zoom (shift+drag) is not displayed. After some click actions, the 
button on the zoom slider bar disappears, so that zoom action are not 
possible anymore. IE does not provide any error messages. This is very weired 
at all. Is this a known issue? Can this be resolved with IE 8 or with some 
special IE settings? 

2. I would like to add raster imagery from file as well. Due to a missing web 
server a cannot load a WMS layer. Does anybody know another possibility to 
load raster imagery?

Thanks in advance,
Sebastian

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