On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:05:01AM +0200, Andreas Hocevar wrote: > Hi, > > I just encountered a strange viewing experience of many of the > examples. Try e.g. http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/example.html > in IE and compare with other browsers: IE zooms to zoom level 0, other > browsers to zoom level 0. > > After some investigation, i saw that the map viewport is 510x254px in > IE, and 512x256px in other browsers. Now if you add a DOCTYPE to the > html that forces the browser into standards compliant mode (e.g. > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>), the viewport size > will be 512x256px in all browsers. > > So the reason why this causes different zoom levels is that the default > for Map.maxResolution is 1.40625, which fits 360 deg into 256 px. If we > have less px, a map of the world won't fit. > > Should we change the examples to use standards compliant mode?
In general, I haven't tested OpenLayers in anything other than quirks mode, so I'm not sure that all things -- like vector rendering and the like -- work correctly. If they do, then I'm fine with that. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
