Archive: April 29th, 2008

Google Maps Error - Solved!

April 29th, 2008


For some time I’ve been struggling with a problem with my Google Maps API - an error that will sometimes appear in Internet Explorer.

Anyway, I did some research yesterday and found a number of possible solutions. They all revolve around the idea that IE doesn’t like you displaying the map until the page has completed.

The three solutions I found were…

  1. Load the map script using an onload event
  2. Use the setTimeout javascript function to delay the execution of the code
  3. Move the javascript to the end of the HTML

I used the third one and it now appears to have cured the problem. Hoorah!

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Windows XP Service Pack 3

April 29th, 2008

XP SP3 is due to pop-up on Automatic Updates very soon.

In the meantime you can download it directly from Microsoft. This is the final, release version of the SP.

As well as rolling up past fixes, this adds new features ported from Vista and early reviewers suggest that it increases performance by up to 10%.

Me? I’m installing this as soon as possible. Who needs Vista?

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