By ArthurC on

I've been developing in Firefox and everything works great. I've also been viewing the site with IE and Chrome.

All maps display nodes. Nodes contain a node location map on which I set the marker with a click of the cursor. Nodes may also contain a GMap macro which may contain point(s), line(s), or polygon(s), also set with clicks of the cursor. This is in Firefox.

But today I tried doing the admin stuff in IE, and when I click the cursor on the node location map or the GMap macro, the marker appears well south and east of where the cursor is.

Appreciate any help.

Drupal 6.13, GMap-6.x-1.1-rc1, Location-6.x-3.1-rc1, IE8

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ArthurC commented

Can someone help me with this, please?

Is it something with IE? Is it something with the software I'm using? Is it something unique to my configuration?

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ArthurC commented

Thanks to this post in the Drupal forum, I have discovered that it's not all versions of IE, it's uniquely IE8 running in standards-compliant mode. Run it in "compatibility more", making it behave like IE7, and the marker is set on the right location on the map.
http://drupal.org/node/433670

In the link noted above, and in this posting by Martin Ivanov, adding a meta-tag to the head of your webpage will automatically cause IE8 to run in compatibility mode.
http://acidmartin.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/using-the-ie8-x-ua-compatibil...

In my case, I'd like to avoid any code patching, because this is a problem for only two people who will only run IE8 and who will be editing the nodes in the website where this gmap-location functionality is required. For them there's a one-time-only, one-click fix in IE8 when they load the website. It is Method 1, described here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956197