[OpenLayers-Users] IE (IE7 & IE8 in compatible mode) support for OpenLayers

[Yingqi Tang]

Thanks a for the summary.

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Andreas Hocevar <ahocevar at opengeo.org>wrote:

> OpenLayers fully supports IE7 and IE8, the latter in both compatible and
> native mode.
>
> This means that everything you can do in other supported browsers, you can
> also do in IE.
>
> IE specific bugs exist because IE is much different from other, more
> standards compliant browsers. The biggest difference is vector rendering -
> for IE we have a completely separate renderer (VML, whereas we use SVG or
> Canvas in other browsers).
>
> However, it is a known fact (but not specific to OpenLayers) that the
> JavaScript engine of IE7 and IE8 is slower than the one of other browsers.
> In vector rendering, you may notice that rotated graphics are much slower in
> IE than in other browsers. This is because of the limited native support of
> geometry transformations in VML.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas.
>
> On Aug 27, 2010, at 15:36 , Yingqi Tang wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > Is there any official or relatively complete written up on the IE support
> of OpenLayers? E.g. what is working and what is not working etc? I see a
> little this and a little that on several specific bug or so but thing gives
> people a clear overview of how OpenLayers works in IE. Any idea?
> >
> > Thanks
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>
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> Andreas Hocevar
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