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

By: Internet Explorer 8 released: Review with screenshots | bthaxor's blog

Internet Explorer 8 released: Review with screenshots | bthaxor's blog — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:52:18 +0000

[...] In terms of webpage-rendering speed, I honestly didn’t see any improvement from IE7. Firefox is the clear winner here. All the pages I browsed to were fine, which is a relief because with the beta version there were many complaints of pages not rendering correctly – the most infamous example being Google Maps and IE8 Beta 1. [...]

By: Howard

Howard — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:40:57 +0000

The reason Google maps now works is that they add a meta tag to make ie8 emulate ie7. I did the same on my google maps api site and it fixed the problem.

If the forum allows it, here is the meta
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By: Alvaro Grillet

Alvaro Grillet — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:12:37 +0000

To make the google map controls to work properly in IE8 you just have to put this line: under the doctype declaration, instead of the tag

i hope this help all of you

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.

By: David

David — Fri, 30 May 2008 22:05:25 +0000

I do like some of the features of IE8, but you might want to install Firefox just so you can switch to it for map reading or anything else IE8 chokes on. I just hope Microsoft fixes this problem with IE8. However, given their pathological hatred of Google they are probably doing high fives right now.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:29:07 +0000

CJ,

IE8 is classed as an update so click view installed updates and uninstall from there. For some reason i cannot view google maps even in IE7 Mode ! Any ideas?

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:35:08 +0000

Ran into the same Google Maps problem (and a few others). I recommend keeping FireFox or another stable, released browser handy for those situations. IE8 (and Internet sites) will get more stable / compliant as we get closer to release, but for now, it probably makes sense to keep a released browser at the ready.

By: CJ

CJ — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:36:25 +0000

OMG – this is broken BIG time.
1. I installed IE8 on my vista machine and immediately it started choking on my google toolbar and would not allow any browsing of any website without error messages/dialogs (the blue screen of death has been replaced by a dantes hell infinite loop of error messages)

2. So I tried to uninstall IE8 but Vista(home) does not allow it – because it does not show up in the add/remove programs. So now I am truly in hell.

3. So I put IE8 in IE7 emulation mode – and it gets generally stable – but of course I am not able to use any advance features

4. Today I had a meeting so I clicked on Google-maps from the toolbar and IE8 (in IE7 mode) crashed with the infinite error messages. So I rebooted and tried to get my directions by merely going to the Google map site and same thing … Hello mapquest (I hope). Dante would have been proud. I am truly in purgatory for the sin of upgrading IE and now at the gates of hell.

By: Wiggy

Wiggy — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:42:48 +0000

Google maps api not working, also litebox not working, but pages do displat faster, the few i have tested anyway!

By: Internet Explorer 8 se pierde con los mapas | eleZeta - Lucas Zallio

Internet Explorer 8 se pierde con los mapas | eleZeta - Lucas Zallio — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:10:20 +0000

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By: revoked

revoked — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:41:28 +0000

Yeah, tell me about it. That embedded app is ours (http://idx.diversesolutions.com), we’re not looking forward to it.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:25:12 +0000

At this time, style sheets are not being displayed correctly.
Why you ask?
They’re moving in line with AcidBurn.
Look at it this way, for the first time in like, forever….. IE is actually a compliant browser. Just waiting for everyone to uncode their pages for earlier IE shortcomings now.

By: » IE8 + Mapping Apps = Teh Suck debugger;

» IE8 + Mapping Apps = Teh Suck debugger; — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:47:26 +0000

[...] Anyway, if you have the slightest interest in either of those things, you should go check out my coworker’s post titled “Google Maps + IE8 Beta 1 = Epic Fail.” [...]