Yingqi Tang <anakint...@...> writes:

> 
> 
> Thanks a for the summary.
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Andreas Hocevar <ahocevar-
[email protected]> wrote:
> OpenLayers fully supports IE7 and IE8, the latter in both compatible and 
native mode.
> This means that everything you can do in other supported browsers, you can 
also do in IE.
> IE specific bugs exist because IE is much different from other, more 
standards compliant browsers. The biggest difference is vector rendering - for 
IE we have a completely separate renderer (VML, whereas we use SVG or Canvas in 
other browsers).
> However, it is a known fact (but not specific to OpenLayers) that the 
JavaScript engine of IE7 and IE8 is slower than the one of other browsers. In 
vector rendering, you may notice that rotated graphics are much slower in IE 
than in other browsers. This is because of the limited native support of 
geometry transformations in VML.
> Regards,
> Andreas.
> On Aug 27, 2010, at 15:36 , Yingqi Tang wrote:
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> 
> > All,
> >
> > Is there any official or relatively complete written up on the IE support 
of OpenLayers? E.g. what is working and what is not working etc? I see a little 
this and a little that on several specific bug or so but thing gives people a 
clear overview of how OpenLayers works in IE. Any idea?
> 
> >
> > Thanks
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Hello All,

I have a page with OpenLayers map and a menu. However, the menu is getting 
hidden behind the map. This problem only comes in IE8. Also, when I switch off 
compatibility mode, the problem goes away. Kindly suggest.

I am using OpenLayers 2.8 -- $Revision: 9492 $

Regards,
Neelima

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