Hi, I've searched in this forum and all over the web to see if there is an answer to this question so I hope someone can help me out!
I've noticed that loading a map up is very slow (it takes around 4 seconds to load a 464x234 sized map) when using Safari, it makes the whole browser freeze for this time and then finally resumes with the map loaded. I initially blamed Google Maps v3 until I tested the same page on all the other common browsers, and then blamed Safari for being slow and cumbersome. However I then started playing around with user-agents as I had to make a workaround which targeted only Safari 3-5 users so that they would have to initiate the map load (originally the user hovered over a static google map image and that would load up the javascript map seamlessly). When I was testing to make sure Chrome and other browsers wouldn't be affected by this workaround (I was being lazy and just changing the user-agent string in Safari), I discovered that the map would load in under a second in Safari, as it does in Chrome and all the other browsers I had tested this on. So I have two questions I guess. a) Why does the API serve up anything different to Safari than what it serves to Chrome etc? What ever the difference is, it is in fact causing more issues than it's sorting. b) Is there any way to load Google Maps with a different user-agent string to what the user's default user-agent string is? It may be something simple but again, Googling this question didn't get me very far. The page that I've been testing this with is http://goo.gl/SBrcL. You just have to hover over the map at the bottom of the page to load the map (except in Safari where I have added a workaround). Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks, TheShrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-maps-js-api-v3/-/YmUyMmZibjFzQ0VK. 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.
