Posted by Mika on 11/25/07 14:48

"Bone Ur" <monstersquasher@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Xns99F2EE3D9433Bboneurhyphe@85.214.90.236...
> Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:56:44
> GMT dorayme scribed:
>
>>> It is incredible how we reply "Do this, do that," and you answer
>>> "Okay, I'll do this but I don't wanna do that because it screws up
>>> something else and the site _has_ been working successfully as-is for
>>> over a year..."
>>>
>>> Fishbowl or arrogance - which is it?
>>
>> O come on... OP is doing the best he can, he is trying to take on
>> board things put to him as best as he understands the advice and
>> his situation and business. He has not the same background as
>> some of the regulars here. It is hard for someone coming for
>> advice about one thing and getting drawn into thickets of things
>> which he might be a little hazy on. He needs to tread carefully
>> and preserve what he has worked hard to achieve and go forward in
>> ways that do not present him with even greater unknowns.
>
> See, that's the thing. "Go forward" from what? -A flawed foundation?
> There is no "forward" to go to. It needs to be rebuilt, not patched or
> amended, because the base is wrong. I don't fault the OP for not
> knowing how to do something but I do fault him for an adolescent
> attitude toward something which is essentially incorrect. Adrienne is
> right; he needs to do some primary stuff over, and I thought that from
> the very beginning. You just can't put crap which must be read by the
> page outside the body tag that way and expect it all to work
> peachy-keen.

Your peers here would disagree with you:
http://tinyurl.com/hvfsw
'Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site, Operation aborted "Google
Map API error"'
"Move all of the remaining code that google supplied you with when
generating your API key (minus the div from above) to the very bottom of
your document, outside of the body tag."

That is exactly what WE (the 3 of us) have done and it works. No need for
further discussion.

We are not in a position to rewrite the site from scratch on your say so at
the moment as explained this is a spare time hobby project, however we have
resolved the issue this thread was started for, and that was the intention.

We appreciate the site may not be fast when accessed from some foreign
countries, but it is fast when accessed from Australia on the other side of
the world, and works fast on any European PC we can test on, in any browser
with JS enabled.

The site is designed for UK visitors, which is why the only 3 streetscapes
featured are UK ones. For the interest of UK residents in USA streets we do
provide some 'Street-lites' as we call them for US areas, but these are not
the streetscapes the site is based around.

We appreciate the help given here to solve the IE/Google bug and have now
done so, so thank you to those who gave constructive assistance. Problem
solved.

Mika, Esa, & Ben

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