On Aug 10, 12:13 am, William <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 10, 12:40 am, bratliff <[email protected]> wrote:> A son of a friend > of mine is a Microsoft employee. He has > > acknowledged several VML bugs in IE8 fixed in IE9 for future release. > > If it is just cosmetic, I am not too concerned. Does it work in IE7 ? > > yeah I just made a simple test case and it's a VML bug in IE6, IE7 and > IE8. I haven't checked the IE9 preview yet. > > Here's a 3 point polyline with the > problem:http://www.william-map.com/20100810/1/problem.htm > > You can see something strange at the top, so if you make the line 75pt > wide, you can see strange > loops:http://www.william-map.com/20100810/1/exaggerated.htm > > Which suggests the problem relates to the default "round" line capping > when there's a 180 degree change in > heading:http://www.william-map.com/20100810/1/fix_miter.htm > > To workaround this you can put another vertex so at the turnaround > there's two angles less than > 180:http://www.william-map.com/20100810/1/workaround_round.htm > > Here's a demonstration using the V3 > polyline:http://www.william-map.com/20100810/1/test.htm > >
Thanks again for your test cases. "Backtracking" confuses the "on-the- fly" point reduction algorithm. The "before" / "after" slope comparison is equal which causes the intermediate vertex to be dropped. I will have to compensate for it. -- 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 [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-js-api-v3?hl=en.
