On 12/27/2010 05:07 PM, David E. Ross wrote: ... > > This seems to be another case of screwed-up sniffing. > > All of the following were done with SeaMonkey 2.0.11. > > With the UA string > Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) > Gecko/20101123 SeaMonkey/2.0.11 > both the map and the blue overlaid route appear okay in my browser > window. The the overlaid route DOES NOT appear in any print operation, > including preview. Thus, the problem is not related to whether the > operating system is Windows or Linux. > > With the UA string > Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) > Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 > both the map and the blue overlaid route appear okay in my browser > window. The the overlaid route DOES indeed appear in print operations, > including preview. > > In the case of SM 2.1b2pre, I suspect the "pre" is the key :-) Google > Maps might have sniffed this as being for a Pre smart phone, in which > case the mapping apparently works. (Not having -- or wanting -- any > smart phone, I can't test that.) However, the experience of Barry > Gilmour indicates otherwise. Maybe it's the combination of "pre" and > "KDE" that works. Also not having Linux, this is another one I can't > test.
You are correct, it is a case of browser sniffing. Just changed to: Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 and print preview & printing now includes the overlay. Also figured out why it was working in my WinXP virtual machine. I have two versions of SeaMonkey installed: 2.0.11 and 2.1b2pre. I had clicked hte 2.1b2pre version for the test & thought that I had clicked the 2.0.11. The reason why the 2.1b version works is that the UA string includes "Firefox" in the UA string (as Barry also pointed out). > > In the case of Opera, it might be a browser that Google ignores while > sniffing. > > I found four open bug reports about invalid sniffing by Google. While > two of them address problems with Google Maps, none of them specifically > address this problem. I have submitted bug report #621619; see > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621619>. Thanks. > > The problem will not be fixed unless the Web site owner is informed. > (It might still not be fixed.) NoOp is now responsible for notifying > Google of the problem; I won't. You might want to read my > <http://www.rossde.com/internet/sniffing.html> before notifying Google. Now I just have to figure out how to file a bug report with Google... Only way I've found is to use the "Report a problem" on the Maps page. I'll try that, but suspect it will go into the Google ether. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
