Posted by Bone Ur on 11/25/07 18:42

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:48:52
GMT Mika scribed:

> "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.

Yeah, right.

First of all, this proves Ryan Grant's solution is correct how? Because
it works for you? Apparently it didn't work for "rf", the first poster
in the blurb.

Second, did you even try the "advanced fix" instead of the "simple fix"?
The former, all of about 6 lines, is valid as opposed to the latter.

> 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

You've solved zilch. You only buried the problem and obfuscated the
issue. Ergo, considering the obtuseness of your obstinacy, we are going
off to tell Brit jokes for our mutual amusement.

Kukla, Fran, & Ollie

--
Bone Ur
Cavemen have formidable pheromones.

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