There are numerous bugs related to the minimap when it first loads, especially in IE7. If the window is not wide enough to show the full width of the google map embedded on the page, in IE7 the button to shrink the minimap (a square button with arrow pointing down-and- right) draws in the UPPER LEFT corner of the whole google map area, AND you cannot click on any of the map scroll buttons or zoom in/out buttons in the upper-left region because of this!
If you click the minimap-shrink button, it shrinks the minimap properly and the button moves to where it should be - the lower right corner of the map area - and turns into the minimap-expand button, as it should (square button with arrow pointing up-and-left). This bug does not seem to happen if the browser starts out wider than the google map area on page load. But since we don't know what size & shape a customer's browser window may be, I have to make it work in all conditions. Trying this on IE6 with narrow window - there's a different bug with placement of the minimap-shrink button: it is drawn a little too far down-and-right of where it should be (about 15px too far down-right, just off the map area). Like in IE7 it fixes itself after you click on it. Also, the map-move and zoom buttons in the upper-left are NOT affected by this - you can click on them when page first loads and they work fine (unlike IE7). Trying this in Firefox with narrow window - no drawing or navigating issues whatsoever, that I can see. Yes, I still have my google map javascript code in my HEAD section, and load the map from the BODY ONLOAD. I will try moving the code to the bottom of the HTML as others have recommended to fix the IE7 "Operation Aborted" issue, which I'm also seeing on some systems. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
