Version 4 ("Spaceland") is live!
Monday, Nov 6, 2006 @ 22:51:00 UTC
The Virtual Earth team has just announced that the latest version (v4) of the platform has now gone live!
This new version of the API includes some impressive client-side 3D rendering using DirectX within the browser. Unfortunately these new features only work in IE6 or IE7, however Firefox users still get full support of aerial and birds eye imagery.
Developers: It seems that this release has broken the v3 control, in turn breaking a lot of our applications. At a first glance, upgrading to the v4 control appears to fix a lot of issues.
We have a lot of documentation and samples to update, but will keep you updated here as we explore this new API.
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I am facing problem in Mozilla when i try use map.DeleteAllPolylines(); and map.AddPolyline(poly); . Does anybody have any idea why it is happening. Is VE is compatible to all browser ? Please reply me on avinash1981@hotmail.com if you have something to share.
Avinash,
This WIKI page is probably of interest to you:
http://www.viavirtualearth.com/Wiki/Firefox2.ashx
Thanks,
Tatham Oddie
Thanks Oddie. Will that hack will work for Opera and Netscape, becos it is written for firefox specially ?
In firefox now poly lines are coming but it flickers very much as compare to IE browser. Is there is a way to prevent the flickering. Please reply me on avinash1981@hotmail.com if you have something to share.
Right now iam using --
if( typeof( window.innerWidth ) == 'number' ) //Non IE
Msn.Drawing.Graphic.CreateGraphic=function(f,b) { return new Msn.Drawing.SVGGraphic(f,b) }
instead of writing if condition specially for Firefox( Ref -- http://www.viavirtualearth.com/Wiki/Firefox2.ashx link). It is working fine in Opera9.2 . Right now iam facing some problem related to flcikering of polyline in Firefox. In netscape at present polylines are not coming. Iam working on it - i will share it, if get any solution. Meanwhile if anybody else any solution, then pls mail.
