Google Maps never supported IE on Windows Phone 8, and likely never will

#1

Post by derpenxyne » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 1:01 AM UTC

Google Maps never supported IE on Windows Phone 8, and likely never will
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Re: Google Maps never supported IE on Windows Phone 8, and likely never will

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Post by robododo » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 1:29 AM UTC

Bizarre.

I wonder if, in 10 years, WebKit will be viewed as the next IE6 when the latest/greatest HTML rendering engine comes along?

What happened to standards compliance?

Re: Google Maps never supported IE on Windows Phone 8, and likely never will

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Post by naner » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 1:30 AM UTC

The mobile web version of Google Maps is optimized for WebKit browsers such as Chrome and Safari.

Does it work with mobile gecko?

Re: Google Maps never supported IE on Windows Phone 8, and likely never will

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Post by bdash » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 1:36 AM UTC

robododo wrote: post #2

Bizarre. I wonder if, in 10 years, WebKit will be viewed as the next IE6 when the latest/greatest HTML rendering engine comes along? What happened to standards compliance?

WebKit is constantly moving forward, and is not stagnant like IE6 was. Many of its initially-proprietary web features have been standardized and adopted by other browser engines. The primary challenge is convincing web authors to support the standardized versions of the formerly-proprietary features alongside the browser-specific versions.

Re: Google Maps never supported IE on Windows Phone 8, and likely never will

#5

Post by chewxy » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 1:37 AM UTC

And yet... you can use it to visit maps.google.co.uk [0].

Stop making excuses for Google. This is ridiculous ffs.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z8vfzurnKw

Re: Google Maps never supported IE on Windows Phone 8, and likely never will

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Post by chewxy » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 1:39 AM UTC

robododo wrote: post #2

Bizarre. I wonder if, in 10 years, WebKit will be viewed as the next IE6 when the latest/greatest HTML rendering engine comes along? What happened to standards compliance?

Honestly I think the title is just PR BS from Google. You can use WP8 browser to access maps.google.co.uk and it works perfectly fine [0]

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z8vfzurnKw

Re: Google Maps never supported IE on Windows Phone 8, and likely never will

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Post by barista » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 1:42 AM UTC

robododo wrote: post #2

Bizarre. I wonder if, in 10 years, WebKit will be viewed as the next IE6 when the latest/greatest HTML rendering engine comes along? What happened to standards compliance?

The reason its not supported is not because of technological limitations. It's just anti competitive practices from Google.

Re: Google Maps never supported IE on Windows Phone 8, and likely never will

#8

Post by so898 » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 1:46 AM UTC

Don't be evil, Google. Please remember it.

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#9

Post by jmillikin » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 1:48 AM UTC

naner wrote: post #3

The mobile web version of Google Maps is optimized for WebKit browsers such as Chrome and Safari. Does it work with mobile gecko?

Sort of; using Firefox 17, the mobile UI loads, but is very jerky and zoom doesn't seem to work.

Regardless, I think Google Maps should try to draw something (no matter what browser the user has), with a big "unsupported browser" box. Redirecting to the home page is a user-hostile behavior.

Re: Google Maps never supported IE on Windows Phone 8, and likely never will

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Post by vibrunazo » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 1:48 AM UTC

chewxy wrote: post #5

And yet... you can use it to visit maps.google.co.uk [0]. Stop making excuses for Google. This is ridiculous ffs. [0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z8vfzurnKw

I cannot test it myself. But there are many people in the comments saying it doesn't work on co.uk either. Maybe it was only working when the uk version was outdated.