Comments on: Google Maps + IE8 Beta 1 = Epic Fail

By: sam hall

sam hall — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:11:20 +0000

I downloaded ie8 onto Windows XP and ever since my Google toolbar constantly crashes and freezes up ie8. I tried to uninstall ie8 but can not go back to ie7. The problem still exists even with ie7 emulation. What to do? Is Microsoft aware of this. Is Google doing anything about it?
Help!!

By: revoked

revoked — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:55:10 +0000

looks like it works on http://maps.google.com but not in the embedded api.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:27:15 +0000

Google maps seems to be working fine on IE8 beta 1 as of today. Has Google changed their code?

By: revoked

revoked — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:09:12 +0000

@Aparna actually, I may be mistaken, but I think that puts IE8 into IE7 “quirksmode” rendering?? And on top of that, if your current site is built on a strict doctype, this doesn’t fly as a good workaround.

By: Aparna

Aparna — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:08:20 +0000

Hey all u people worked about google maps not displaying properly on ur webpages here is a SOLUTION…

TRY REMOVING THE DOCTYPE FRO YOUR PAGE AND CHECK OUT.

I had the same problem, the entire just blewup and made life miserable, it was important for me to have the map, so i switched to yahoo maps, and there too i had a problem, not that the map blew up but it did not appear at all, so just tried getting rid of doctype and it worked.Going back to google maps without the doctype that too worked.