I have just hit this problem with my own site (DanceWeb), which I have recently been updating to work well with IE8 in standards mode. Using "compatibility mode" is *not* a professional solution - maybe just a temporary fudge! We need to resolve where and what the problem really is, and get MS or Google to fix it. From the dates of these posts it looks like a very recent bug. I suspect that unless fixed ASAP it will kill loads of major sites very soon.
I guess that either MS return wrong mouse co-ordinates from the OS when IE8 in use, or Google Api is making wrong transformation to lat/ long. You can see problem on my site; click the following: http://www.danceweb.co.uk/?q=london+tap+mon Then click on "Borehamwood" (just above London). Map should re-centre on Borehamwood - it does not! Works fine in compatibility mode. It has always worked fine under IE6/IE7/Firefox etc. John On Jul 20, 3:06 am, murraysmith <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Larry, that fixed it. > > For others that may run into this problem, compatibility mode is > truned on from the client side by navigating to the site that is > having the problem and going to Tools>Compatibility View in IE 8 to > enable compatibility view for for that site. > > However, web site designers will not want their users to have to do > this from the client side. To turn on the view from within the html > you need to add a tag like this to the html page <meta http-equiv="X- > UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7"/> > > Here are a couple of links to more information on this: > > http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/archive/2008/09/25/ie-8-compatibilit... > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960321 > > Murray > > On Jul 18, 9:33 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > On Jul 18, 8:21 pm, murraysmith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I copied the html from the Map Events Arguments sample to my web site > > > to try running it from there. When I use Internet Explorer 8 to access > > > the site and I click on the map, the pointer on the info window > > > doesn't point to the place I clicked on in the map. When I use FireFox > > > it works fine. Also when I run the page in preview mode from MS > > > FrontPage it works fine. > > > > The url to my site is www3.telus.net/bikemap > > > > My IE 8 version is 8.0.6001.18783 and I'm running on Windows Vista > > > Home Premium SP1. > > > > Any ideas or suggestions are welcome. > > > Perhaps set IE7 compatability > > mode?http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/search?group=Google-Ma... > > > -- Larry- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
