Returning to work.

August 24th, 2009 - 1 Comment

First day of class and back to work. Oh the excitement! Really, not sarcastically. I had a few things to fix / rework on the MSU Google Map I made before the summer started so I popped open Visual Studio and began editing. Unfortunately every time I tried to type if to create some logic to test for a null image, visual studio crashed. After four attempts of doing the same thing I decided it was time to bust out dreamweaver. It might have been the large amounts of javascript involved and tele-sense killing it, but it was rather annoying. Good thing dreamweaver doesn’t have that problem. After that I was checking out a problem involving an issue that wouldn’t allow IE8 users (with compatibility mode off) to click in the map to access information about a building. After looking around to see what might be causing it I couldn’t find anything in the code. It was also odd because it worked fine in compatibility mode and in firefox. I searched in the google group for the issue and low and behold its IE8. IE8 incorrectly calculates the x y click offset. How wonderful. The best part is Microsoft has known about the issue since IE8 RC1 and it still hasn’t been fixed! Their solution? Use a meta tag to force IE7 interpretation in IE8. Wow. Two losses for MS today.

[ Tags ]: asp.net, bug, Google Maps, IE8, microsoft, ms, Visual Studio, x y offset
[ Category ]: programming