[MacTUG] Safari problem with displaying maps by Microsoft Interactive Earth

Steve Hellyer phasetwo at apple.com
Wed Oct 15 13:05:12 EDT 2008


Hi Glen,

This link will lead you to interesting observations....

http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/02/a-virtual-earth-safari-can-be.html

Steve

On 15-Oct-08, at 11:21 AM, Glenn Anderson wrote:

> Safari seems to have problems with displaying (and working with) an  
> interactive maps provided by Microsoft Interactive Earth mapping.
>
> The best example of this is to go to real estate mls site,  
> www.mls.ca and look up somewhere like Waterloo / or zoom in on  
> Waterloo. As one zooms in, at some point things go crazy and the map  
> starts zooming in/out.
>
> If you want to jump into the problem try:  http://www.REALTOR.ca/map.aspx?veCenter=48.2246726495652,%20-85.73730468750001&VeZoomLevel=5#acr 
> :false;ac:false;baths:0-0;beds:0-0;fp:false;gar:false;pmin:0;pmax: 
> 0;rmin:0;rmax:0;openh:false;pool:false;stories: 
> 0 
> -0 
> ;buildingstyle 
> :;buildingtypeid 
> :;viewtypeid:-1;waterfront:false;forsale:true;forrent:false;mapZ: 
> 11;sortT:1;sortBy:1;page:1;mapC: 
> 43.46313876427882,%20-80.52069112658502;
>
> Note:  The problem exists with other similar sites that use  
> Microsoft Interactive to display where they are. However, since they  
> set the zoom level to fairly high, they may sort of fail before even  
> loading.
>
> Anyways... anyone know a work around? Or more importantly a method  
> of stopping the zoom in/out loop? Can one stop the plug in?
>
> Glenn Anderson
> Client Services, IST
> University of Waterloo
> Waterloo, On
> 519-888-4567 x33327
> anderson at uwaterloo.ca
>
>
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