Well I suppose that the GMapType method getTextColor does what it says
on the tin - returns a colour that should show up well as TEXT on the
map.

I suggest either the API adds a getDrawingColor method to GMapType or
changes getTextColor to return an #RRGGBB value instead of a named
colour.

BTW I came across this issue when fixing up my OSGB graticule to work
on Opera.

Bill.

On Nov 2, 5:35 am, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wasn't it Esa who wrote:
>
>
>
> >Opera is famous to be strict with rules.
>
> >W3C rules say that there are these colors:
>
> >aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive,
> >purple, red, silver, teal, white, and yellow.
>
> Unless you're setting the flags to force Opera to use SVG, then the poly
> technology used in Opera uses the Google Server.http://mt.google.com/mld.
>
> Google think that the W3C rules don't apply to their image servers (they
> could well be right) and those servers only support colours in the
> format &color=RRR,GGG,BBB,TTT.T. If you pass the documented format,
> "#RRGGBB", to the API, then the API will convert that from hex to
> decimal, use your opacity setting to calculate the transparency, and
> send the right thing to the server.
>
> The API code that performs that conversion isn't expecting "white". It
> discards the "#" if there is one, then slices the rest into
> two-character slices and converts then from hex to decimal. "wh" and
> "it" fail to convert, and "e" is 14. The API ends up sending
> "&color=NaN,NaN,14,50.999999999999986" to the image server.
>
> --http://econym.org.uk/gmap
> The Blackpool Community Church Javascript Team
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