Friday, August 31, 2007

I finally got around to checking my Virtual Earth app on Safari and surprise! it doesn't work.

Turns out the technique I'm using to inject Javascript into the page from managed code isn't compatible with Safari which is breaking the mouse wheel scrolling and something is busted with the back button support. I'm quite bummed about the mouse wheel stuff because I had a cool sample ready to go on how to use it, but the workaround is ugly. Hopefully I'll get it going again soon.

Probably the biggest lesson I've gotten out of this project is that anytime I rely on browser functionality- from layout to javascript, Murphy's Law comes into full effect, productivity drops to nil and frustration boils over.

In the meantime, the app works fine on Firefox on OS X so I'd suggest using that instead. But I'm not giving up on Safari!

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