On Feb 1, 11:02 pm, Barry Hunter <barrybhun...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 1 February 2010 13:40, bratliff <bratl...@umich.edu> wrote: > > > On Feb 1, 8:39 am, Ben Appleton <apple...@google.com> wrote: > > > Very interesting explanation. > > > Slightly off-topic but closely related: > > > What is the purpose of "&s=Galileo" ? > > Firefox caches page components using a hash of the url as the key, > rather than the URL itself. Unfortunatly some similar tile urls ended > up getting the same hash, so that param was added to add a bit of > entropy ;) > (apparently anyway)
> Barry > > -www.nearby.org.uk-www.geograph.org.uk- Thanks for the clarification. It sounds like a FireFox bug to me. If it is known at Mozilla, I am surprised it has not been fixed. I believe Google has dropped support for pre-SVG FireFox V1.x. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To post to this group, send email to google-maps-js-api...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
