New Interactive Itinerary
As noted below, I've another new feature, an interactive itinerary. Clicking on a location in the itinerary loads a satellite photo of that location, at varying zoom levels depending on the detail of the satellite photos available.Some things I've found with the Google Maps API - it is not a fan of Internet Explorer (who is?), in that it only supports IE6+, and even then the code is a bit temperamental. It was a real headache getting the route map to work at all due to all the VML stuff going on. On the other hand, for some bizarre reason the images seem to download a lot quicker in IE than they do in Firefox. I don't quite understand how the choice of browser can affect download speed (it does seem to be download speed as opposed to rendering speed that is the issue), but this does seem to consistently be the case. Hopefully the issue is discussed in the newsgroups somewhere.
There are also a couple of minor layout issues in IE, due to bloody cocking CSS pissing me about as usual. That shit is a mystery to me, it is the most un-intuitive stuff I've ever come across in the "web-technology" world. I hate it and it hates me. So despite Tony's pineapple winning efforts, this site remains resolutely tabley instead of CSSy.
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