Recently I’ve been updating a site with some quite complex map related functionality from Google maps v2 to Google maps v3. All in all it has been straight forward and worth doing. The one disappointment IMO has been Streetview – the old version was so much slicker. The new version is easier to implement, but [...]
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Speed matters
To my unending amazement, many people I’ve worked with simply don’t believe that speed matters as a factor in Search Engine rankings. I don’t understand why. It’s not like Google (and lets face it, we are talking about Google) are being coy about it. (see links) When you work in an office with stupidly fast [...]
My first bit of Mootools and centering a Google Map in a hidden div
Started a new job last week for a really cool agency in a place I really want to work* – but they are Mootools users not jQuery folk, so I am been thrown headlong into (among other things) the world of Mootools. I’m used to just sitting down and being able to make things work [...]
When Google Maps go bad…
This week I noticed that a number of google maps had stopped working out of the blue, not dying in a spectacular javascript car crash, just a subdued failure and no map. Looking in Firefox error console I see G_MAP_TYPE is not defined; – WTF? it was working… Well looking into it, it is an [...]
