I noticed the bug a couple weeks ago. Taking down our site
(www.pittsburghtoday.org) wasn't an option. But I realized that the
fix is pretty simple if you can add some server-side script. Just have
the script echo the feed results with the correct MIME type. Problem
solved in less than an hour.

On Jul 12, 8:10 am, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree with you! This bug is critical and has been noticed more than a month 
> ago. They are taking too long to fix it, as if it is wasn`t so important 
> (your website just won`t open for some users!)
> I`m a bit disapointed too...
> Enviado de meu telefone Nokia
> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: Peter Wraae Marino
> Enviado:  12/07/2011, 03:29
> To: [email protected]
> Assunto: Re: [visualization-api] Re: visualization does not work in internet 
> explorer...still
>
> Hi Luca,
>
> I wrote directly to one of the developers and he said they have a fix for
> this problem, but he couldn't tell me when it would be release.
>
> I find it very strange that they don't release a fix for such a major bug.
> I'm currently removing all googles charts, tables, spreadsheets from my
> website because the club I work at have 800 members and I'm receiving too
> many complaints that pages are failing.
>
> This bug has been valid for a long time and apparently google don't see this
> as a major bug (which it is). I am a Chrome user, but lots of our 
> clientsstilluse IE and I have to make sure our website works for them too.
>
> This bug really is making me reconsider using googles api.
>
> Peter
>
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Luca Möller 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi Peter,
>
> > I'm having this same problem with IE9. I'm using the GWT Visualization
> > to show ColumnCharts, and in IE9 they simply doesnt render and stop
> > the javascript execution (aparently it gets stuck in the
> > "VisualizationUtils.loadVisualizationApi(callback,
> > ColumnChart.PACKAGE)"  call).
>
> > An immediate solution I've found for now is to use the meta tag
> > <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8"/>
> > This will make the charts render again, but the rest of the page will
> > also be rendered like it would in IE8 (at least your page will work
> > for users that have IE9).
>
> > Another soluton I'm studying is using the chrome frame (GCF), but I'm
> > not confortable with idea os forcing users to install it.
>
> > If you know about any other workarounds for this problem before an
> > oficial solution is released, I would like to know!
>
> > see ya!
> > Luca
>
> > On 11 jul, 09:23, Peter Wraae Marino <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi everybody,
>
> > > I have created an issue on this:
> >http://code.google.com/p/google-visualization-api-issues/issues/detai...
>
> > > please star it to show google how important this is!... it must work on
> > IE9
>
> > > regards,
> > > Peter
>
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