Oh great, IE8 has broken pin placement in Google Maps API…
I’ve been doing some work with Google Maps recent, and a small part of it involves you clicking on the map to place a marker. Nothing too technical!
However, IE8 (rc1 atleast) doesn’t place the pin where you click it. There doesn’t seem to be any sequence to where it moves it to either.
After a bit of googling, I turned up the two posts below which seem to point to the issue being to do with how IE8 returns the position of the click event’s X & Y position.
The quick, dirty work around at the moment is to add:
<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=EmulateIE7″ />
to your <head>
http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=1055
http://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=362142
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Graham
oh dear you really do need a header designed don’t you
Douglas Radburn
yes, i bloody do! If only I knew a colour blind designer with not alot to do….
Giorgio
Thanks a lot for this hack. I was trying to debug a GMaps app I’m working on and luckily I’ve found your post. It works perfectly.
Best,
Giorgio