[Chameleon] PanMap widget update.

[Paul Spencer]

Thanks Bart :>

Paul

Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> Paul, Jason,
> 
> the updates (dynlayer.js, dhtmlapi.js, drag.js) are in CVS head and have been tested with IE and Firefox. Paul, I had to do a minor change to your last version of dynlayer.js but all is working now cross-browser.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
> 
> Bart van den Eijnden
> Syncera IT Solutions
> Postbus 270
> 2600 AG  DELFT
> 
> tel.nr.: 015-7512436
> email: BEN at Syncera-ITSolutions.nl
> Bart van den Eijnden
> Syncera IT Solutions
> Postbus 270
> 2600 AG  DELFT
> 
> tel.nr.: 015-7512436
> email: BEN at Syncera-ITSolutions.nl
> 
>>>>Paul Spencer <pspencer at dmsolutions.ca> 07/07/05 15:25 PM >>>
> 
> Jason,
> 
> I think I have finally figured out what the problem is.  If you are 
> using a valid doctype in your template, it can force browsers into 
> standards compliance mode instead of quirks mode.  This is not 
> necessarily a bad thing, but it means that any css styles or js code 
> that sets styles related to positioning MUST INCLUDE "px" ... so if you 
> set the top position of an element through js
> var top = 100;
> myDiv.style.top = top;
> 
> this becomes invalid and is ignored.  To do it properly, you must do:
> 
> myDiv.style.top = top + "px";
> 
> The code that handles the ruler and the pan does not do this properly 
> due to its age.
> 
> Now that I understand the problem, I've been  able to fix it for Bart. 
> He will be doing some further testing and committing the changes to CVS 
> at some point soon (I hope).
> 
> The immediate workaround would be to remove the doctype if that is a 
> possibility for you
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Paul
> 

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