I'm a long time subscriber (at least three years now) of Mapa and miss a lot the fact that not only their maps work only with IE but also that it requires Microsoft JVM (had to disable the Sun plugin in order to work with it).
Actually, the map (applet) works in any JVM - the issue is that the installer applets (it downloads and saves the map applet on your disk) have to be VM specific. There are several implementations of the installer applet (including one for Sun's JVM), but which one is used is determined by your browser's user-agent, and it is (wrongly of course) assumed that on IE, you have Microsoft VM. So, if you could access the maps page with Mozilla or Netscape, it should work in Sun's JVM just fine.
I told them that I want support for Mozilla (and linux) a long time ago, who should I contact to say this again?
I don't know really... look on the website (if you can :-)). I didn't actually work for Mapa - I worked for Telmap, who make the map itself. If you're a paying customer, I suggest calling/emailing their tech support.
I think that recently (for the last few months) they made the other parts of their site more Linux friendly (mozilla, Konqi etc...).
Well, even the main page won't load for me in Mozilla/Firebird.
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 14:50 24.09.2003 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a long time subscriber (at least three years now) of Mapa and miss a lot the fact that not only their maps work only with IE but also that it requires Microsoft JVM (had to disable the Sun plugin in order to work with it).
I told them that I want support for Mozilla (and linux) a long time ago, who should I contact to say this again?
I think that recently (for the last few months) they made the other parts of their site more Linux friendly (mozilla, Konqi etc...).
--Amos
Alexander Maryanovsky wrote:
Well, the maps at mapa.co.il should work fine (It's written in Java and I'm one of the two authors), but unfortunately Mapa's website uses IE javascript and will give you an error on anything but IE. Feel free to email and urge them to make their website standards compliant. The other catch is that it's not a free service, but the maps are worth every penny :-). I've put a screenshot of the map and the UI at http://www.jinchess.com/tmp/map.png just so you can appreciate the quality. And yes, I implemented all that antialiasing and hebrew text by myself from scratch :-).
Alexander Maryanovsky. At 13:26 24.09.2003 +0300, Ittay Dror wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to find an online maps site (of the sort where you input source and destination addresses and it provides you with directions). I used maps.walla.co.il so far, but they upgraded the site and so it doesn't work for me anymore.
I'm using firebird 0.6.1
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