Within IE8 Standards Mode, when attempting to place a GMap marker, the marker is placed in the wrong location.

This does not happen in IE8's Compatibility Mode. This also does not happen in Firefox, Chrome, or Internet Explorer 7.

I verified this behavior on three separate PCs running IE8. All do not work properly when in IE8 Standards Mode, but do work properly in IE8 Compatibility Mode

The behavior is consistent, where it will place the marker in the same incorrect location, if you click on the same part of the map.

My current work-around of this is to add the following meta tag to the page.tpl.php to force Compatibility Mode.

Thanks,

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mherchel
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The HTML Filter stripped the meta tag, but it can be found at http://acidmartin.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/using-the-ie8-x-ua-compatibil...

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vlooivlerke commented
Version: 5.x-1.1-rc1 » 6.x-1.x-dev

Same bug in D6 version

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ArthurC commented

I hadn't discovered this thread when I posted a similar question, here:
http://drupal.org/node/590796

Fortunately, in my situation there's no need to resort to any coding fixes, but it's good to know one exists.

A related question, though:

- Is IE8 the true standards-bearer and all the others - IE7, Firefox, Chrome - are sloppily tolerant of non-standard code?

- Is IE8 applying arcane standards that only Microsoft could devise in hopes of further ensnaring us in its devious plans of world domination?

- Is Chrome (and Google) moving in the same world-domination direction as suggested here:
http://rodeworks.com/technology/internet-explorer-8-excuses-not-a-solution/

Okay, guess I'm off topic. I'll go now.

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Jeka_JV commented

Same problem. IE 8. Click on map and marker goes in the wrong location.
2ArthurC: Thank you.

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skolesnyk commented

Hack is a good thing, but the bug with gmaps on IE8 is still out there. Any chance of fixing?

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vlooivlerke commented

#1 worked for me, Use the ie8 compatability meta tag inside the page.tpl file of your theme.

edit

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />

put this below your <head> section

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rooby commented
Priority: Critical » Major
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Can you please check and see if this is still an issue in the latest version of the gmap & location modules.

It should not be.

Also, this does not break anything critically so changing the status.
See http://drupal.org/node/156119 for more info.

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jkingsnorth commented
Issue summary: View changes
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (cannot reproduce)

No additional information provided, closing. Please reopen against the latest dev with full instructions about how to recreate the problem if this is still an issue. Thanks.