Actually, it happens in the V2 api as well. I am absolutely flummoxed after several days of trying to figure this out.
My app was working well, or so I thought, on V2. I do most of my development in Firefox and try it every so often in IE. A few days ago I tried IE and started getting the bug. I concurrently made the decision to port the app to V3, initially guessing that the problem had to do with the deprecation of V2 ... that perhaps the developers were prodding us (me) to move up to V3 by virtue of the fact of bugs in V2. OK, I could go with that ... But then after porting the app (had to port elabels.js, and write my own polydecoder since all my lines are stored encoded and V3 no longer has any fromEncoded methods), the problem still occurred. So I spent a half day or so of going thru the Internet Explorer Options over and over, along with clearing the Temporary Internet Files and Temp folders uncounted times, and pressing ctrl-F5 like a silly fool all to no avail. I wrote a completely stripped down html file with minimal embedded javascript that just creates a simple map, and the problem still occurs. No matter what I do I get this Invalid Character %7b message, or some similar variant of it in IE8. ------------------------------------------- Message: Invalid character Line: 1 Char: 1 Code: 0 URI: http://maps.gstatic.com/cat_js/intl/en_ALL/mapfiles/246b/maps2/%7Bmod_util,mod_ctrapp,mod_exdom,mod_kbrd,mod_lyctr,mod_tfcapp,mod_lyrs,mod_qdt,mod_trtlr,mod_reldr,mod_cbl,mod_ac2,mod_sg2,mod_dl,mod_act,mod_blyr,mod_mssvt,mod_actbr,mod_appiw,mod_poly%7D.js ------------------------------------------- To top it off, it also happens when I try any of the V2 or V3 samples, and the piece de-resistance, when I simply go to http://maps.google.com/ I am beginning to wonder if it has something to do with google maps localization and distributed serving. FWIW, I happen to be in the Republic of Panama, somewhere near IP address 216.113.194.129, and not, for instance, in San Jose. Anyway, it seems to me that it shouldn't be this difficult. I don't believe I have changed anything in IE's configuration that should affect this. As a naive user I would expect google maps to work robustly with the current release of the #2 (or is it #1 lol) brower, and as a developer I would expect there to be some way to diagnose and/ or correct the problem. --------------------------------------------------- In closing I'm gonna post this to the V3 group as well. And sorry about my earlier post of the port of Elables to V3 ... I realized right after I pressed the button that it did not belong in this group. Thanks, - Pat -- 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.
