[OpenLayers-Users] Bug ie:8

[Andreas Hocevar]

Hi,

according to [1], dynamically adding vml elements to a dom tree does not 
work (yet) in IE8 (beta 1 and 2) in IE8 mode.

The only workaround at the moment is to include a meta tag in the head 
of your html page to make IE8 work in IE7 mode (see [2]):

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />


One thing that will definitely not work in IE8 mode is the way we 
currently add the vml namespace, because script.addRule is no longer 
supported. Most likely, HTML pages will have to include

<?import namespace="olv" implementation="#default#VML" ?>

in the future, unless we find a way to include that dynamically.

To summarize, it still seems a bit early to think about IE8, as long as 
there are known VML limitations with the beta versions. But we are aware 
and prepared to do something, as soon as things get stable in IE8.

Regards,
Andreas.

[1] 
http://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=364096
[2] 
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=46936852-1F94-40F5-AD17-4A83F43FCB51&displaylang=en

Erik Uzureau wrote:
> Agreed. We do not currently support IE8, but we undoubtedly will
> in the future. Thanks for bringing this to our attention, and if you
> can help us out with some more details or even a ticket in our trac[1]
> that would be great!
>
> Erik
>
> [1] http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/FilingTickets
>
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Christopher Schmidt
> <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 12:08:54PM +0200, Kenny France wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> I am not sure if this is a problem but
>>>
>>> whilst testing IE 8 i get the following error and the maps won't load
>>>
>>> Invalid Argument
>>> VML.js        Line:43
>>> Code:0        Char: 13
>>>       
>> OpenLayers developers have not yet put any effort into supporting IE8.
>>
>> However, having this in a reproducible form will allow us to address the
>> problem once someone chooses to take this on as a task; Can you explain
>> what version you were using, and how to reproduce the problem? If you
>> can cause it to happen on one of the examples
>> (http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/) that would be best.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Christopher Schmidt
>> MetaCarta
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