We are also having this problem with www.redfin.com and received the same email. Sniffing the wire with wireshark shows that IE6 downloads the bootstrap js from maps.google.com, but does not run it. The "google" object remains undefined. I've been poking at this for two days now, and my best guess agrees with what Jarrod as just said.
On Dec 9, 8:23 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the attaboy Jarrod, but it was actually Jess Lacy who came > up with the http 1.1 workaround. > > On Dec 9, 11:08 am, Jarrod <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Was there any change in the headers/gzip google is using to send the > > javascript over? Forcing IE 6 to NOT use HTTP 1.1 seems to solve the > > issue, and there is the known IE 6 bug with gzip/iframes/cache-pragma > > headers. This appears to fit the symptoms of this bug to a T. Thanks > > to dmusick for pointing the HTTP 1.1 solutions (http:// > > groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api/msg/4287a7303db33eb5) Thought > > this may help... > > > Also, here is our header for the .js grab: > > > GET /maps? > > file=api&v=2&key=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY > > HTTP/1.1 > > Accept: */* > > Accept-Language: en-us > > Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate > > User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; > > SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) > > Host: maps.google.com > > Connection: Keep-Alive > > > Content is getting gzip, my guess is this is the issue, but there > > isn't much we can do about it client side unfortunately. > > > On Dec 8, 7:24 pm, "Dann (Google Employee)" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I've reproduced this issue, which happens somewhat inconsistently. > > > We're looking into this, and I'll report back with any updates. > > > > On Dec 8, 12:12 pm, skindogg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Yeah I think i'll use this until the devs come back with something > > > > else. Honestly if someone hasIE6, I'd like to redirect them to > > > > windows update, but yeah I can't do that. > > > > > On Dec 8, 2:28 pm, Christian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Try this :It doesn't solve the problem : It's just an inelegant > > > > > cheating trick. But it may help while waiting for google reaction. > > > > > > *************************************************** > > > > > try { > > > > > GBrowserIsCompatible();} > > > > > > catch (e) > > > > > { > > > > > window.location.reload (); > > > > > > } > > > > > > function initialize() > > > > > { > > > > > if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) ... > > > > > > *************************************************** > > > > > > On 8 déc, 20:06, Christian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi > > > > > > Same Problem for me. And same solution : pressing the F5 refresh key > > > > > > displays the map without warning messages from the debugger ! > > > > > > I've tried many things : placing the code elsewhere in the page, > > > > > > trying with a timer of 5 sec, load theAPItwice,.... but with no > > > > > > success. > > > > > > I don't understand the solution of Jess (in the previous post). > > > > > > However, I've tried it also, but no change. > > > > > > I can't affirm that it is a brand new problem, since I'm not testing > > > > > > often my apps withIE6. But, the feedback from the people using my > > > > > > site is from two days only. > > > > > > > Does someone from the Google dev team read some time this group ? > > > > > > Because I think there are the only one that can answer us (if this > > > > > > problem is really new)- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en.
