Google Maps

[RFH Reseller: creativeworks]

When I copy and paste any of these Google Map examples and change them to a .aspx extension (with a new map key for the relevant domain), they don't work in FF or Safari... any ideas?

If I change the Helm website settings to run HTML pages as ASP.NET pages - then again, the Google Map examples stop working. The Google examples work as htm, html, and asp - just not ASPX, which is my chosen language!

I'm certain this shouldn't be the case - and wondered if there were any settings on RFH I'm not aware of...?

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/doc...les/index.html

Many Thanks.

[RFH Reseller: JohnnyW]

Google maps works fine on RFH with .net pages.

A couple of my sites use it: http://www.seasonworkers.com/Profile...ience-153.aspx

Do you have a link to your .net page that isn't working?

[RFH Reseller: askjim]

I can confirm I have google maps within .net page which are displayed within an iframe.

[RFH Reseller: creativeworks]

try either of these in FF and let me know your results, both are the same code:


Dot Net Example

HTM example


thanks for your time, can't figure out what I'm doing wrong...

[RFH Reseller: nick]

Not sure what the problem is, the only real difference I can see between the pages that might be interfereing with things is that the dot net pages are served as application/xhtml+xml whilst the standard page is text/html. you may need to use cdata escaping, eg:

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
    function initialize() {
      if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) {
        var map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map_canvas"));
        map.setCenter(new GLatLng(37.4419, -122.1419), 13);
        map.openInfoWindow(map.getCenter(),
                           document.createTextNode("Hello, world"));
      }
    }
//]]>
</script>

just a wild guess

[RFH Reseller: creativeworks]

Done both of those, and still no show in FF...

[RFH Reseller: askjim]

Please install firebug for firefox so that you can check for any javascript errors. Doing this you will notice errors.

First item you need to do

http://maps.google.com/support/bin/a...29&topic=10789

Then this leaves you with this issue

http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-i.../detail?id=530

The issue is what Nick suspected so 50 points to Nick.

So in .Net you need to do Response.ContentType = "text/html"

Hope this works for you and does not break something else :-)

James

[RFH Reseller: creativeworks]

Thanks for all the tips, the content-type was the best lead...

In a moment of past genius, I was delivering the content type as application/xhtml+xml within the global.asax.

So through all my efforts of not understanding why a page smothered in html tags and content type, was still delivering xml...

Looks like 'past me' set a trap for 'present me'...! lets hope 'future me' will remember this lesson...

[RFH Reseller: askjim]

Well it was a good exercise in advance of needing to do some the same for some clients at work.