[OpenLayers-Users] IE problems with OL + dojo

[William Kyngesburye]

On Mar 28, 2009, at 2:54 AM, Eric Lemoine wrote:

> Hi.
>
> The "missing tiles" syndrom is often due to setCenter executed too
> early, i.e. before the map div has its final dimensions.
>
I'm calling zoomToMaxExtent at the very end of the initialization  
(dojo.addOnLoad for Dojo).  Is this something that is more likely to  
affect IE?

> If Ext is still an option for you I'd recommend looking at GeoExt
> (<http://www.geoext.org>), GeoExt includes a map panel making it easy
> to have an OpenLayers map in an Ext panel and avoiding the types of
> issues you're seeing.
>
The auto-distribution of javascript question was never answered  
clearly by the FSF rep - he sidestepped my latest question of whether  
an application with both server and client code can be considered  
distributed.

I suppose geoext is an option, since my application wouldn't need to  
be GPL.  But, I want to stick with Dojo for now, I like it and have  
spent a lot of time on it now.  And geoext doesn't look like it's  
ready for production use yet.

> Cheers,
>
> Eric
>
> 2009/3/26, William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com>:
>> I mostly have OL working with the Dojo js library.  The main key I
>> found was to load OL *after* dojo, or neither would work right.
>>
>> The map displays correctly, and the dojo layout stuff works, in  
>> Safari
>> and Firefox, but IE6+ has problems.
>>
>> With a tiled base layer, one or more of the tiles is not rendering in
>> the initial view (max extents), and the bigger the window, the more
>> missing.  If I zoom in, then back out to the max extents, it renders
>> all tiles.
>>
>> Also, when exiting the web page, there is a javascript error.  The
>> best I could debug it, with companion.js, there is an invalid  
>> argument
>> error in Map.js line 890 (multi-file OL), or a syntax error on line
>> 891, depending on whether the map page is embedded in another page or
>> not. (OL 2.7).
>>
>> The same OL map using mapfish/ext does not have these problems.
>>
>> I wonder if Dojo is redefining something that OL needs, that only
>> affects IE browsers?  Or Dojo is changing the DOM differently in IE,
>> and in a way OL doesn't like?  My debugging capability is limited on
>> the IE side.  And this whole adventure (first mapfish, then dojo) has
>> been a crash course in javascript, so I'm still learning ;)
>>
>> If anyone cares to look, the non-embedded version:
>>
>> http://www.mappingspecialists.com/maps/windex-full-dev-dojo.php
>>
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>> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
>>
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>>
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>> if
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[Trillian]  What are you supposed to do WITH a maniacally depressed  
robot?

[Marvin]  You think you have problems?  What are you supposed to do if  
you ARE a maniacally depressed robot?  No, don't try and answer, I'm  
50,000 times more intelligent than you and even I don't know the  
answer...

- HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy