[OpenLayers-Users] line modify crashes safari

[Wendell Turner]

The patch works for me! (Safari on Windows)  Browser string
is:
  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/531.21.8
  (kHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Safari/531.21.10

Thanks,

Wendell

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:59:18PM +0100, Andreas Hocevar wrote:
> Can anyone affected by this issue please test the patch attached to
> 
> http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2402
> 
> I made it so the workaround only affects browsers with a userAgent
> string containing "applewebkit/5". I would ask affected users to report
> their user agent string. To do so, please enter
> 
> javascript:alert(navigator.userAgent)
> 
> in your browser's address bar, and report the result.
> 
> I also opened a webkit bug for the issue, see the ticket mentioned above
> for a link.
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas.
> 
> On 2010-01-07 03:12, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 11:43:37PM +0000, Wendell Turner wrote:
> >   
> >> Modifying a drawn feature on this example crashes the Safari
> >> browser on both Macs and Windows.
> >>
> >>   http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.8/examples/snapping.html
> >>
> >> Does OpenLayers intend to support Safari for this?
> >>     
> > There isn't a deliberate decision not to support Safari here.
> >
> > I feel like I played with this example in Safari 3 and it worked; however,
> > I'm now running Safari4, and I can confirm that it crashes.
> >
> > The fact that it crashes the browser is obviously a browser bug,
> > and should probably be reported as such. However, that doesn't mean
> > that we shouldn't try to improve the behavior in OpenLayers; patches welcome.
> >
> > Regards,
> >   
> 
> 
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