Bug 12982 – Microsoft Virtual Earth map does not display (dev.virtualearth.net)

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Evangelism

[Bobby Hays]

From javascript console:
TypeError: Null value
http://maps.live.com/veapi.ashx?v=1.3.0908172755.52

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Confirmed with a local debug build of WebKit r19993 with Safari 2.0.4 (419.3) on Mac OS X 10.4.8 (8N1037).

This is NOT a regression as shipping Safari doesn't work either.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> TypeError: Null value
> http://maps.live.com/veapi.ashx?v=1.3.0908172755.52

The JavaScript console reports the error is on "Line 1".  This is not helpful as the JS source for the above URL is all on one line.

[Roman Rudenko]

If you try using v5 of API instead, you will get a JS file that is not all one huge line. There, one can figure out the details:

http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=5 around line 799
...
if(a.UserAgent.indexOf("MSIE")!=-1){if(navigator.browserLanguage)a.Locale=navigator.browserLanguage;
if(navigator.userLanguage)a.Locale=navigator.userLanguage;
if(navigator.systemLanguage)a.Locale=navigator.systemLanguage}else if(a.UserAgent.indexOf("Gecko")!=-1){var c=new RegExp("; (.*); rv:"),b=c.exec(a.UserAgent);
if(b[1])a.Locale=b[1].substring(b[1].lastIndexOf(" "),b[1].length+1)}else if(a.UserAgent.indexOf("Opera")!=-1){var c=new RegExp(" (.*))"),b=c.exec(a.UserAgent);
if(b[1])a.Locale=b[1].substring(b[1].lastIndexOf(" "),b[1].length+1)}else a.Locale="en-US"}function k(){if(a.UserAgent.indexOf("Gecko")!=-1)a.Type=Msn.VE.BrowserType.Firefox;else if(a.UserAgent.indexOf("MSIE")!=-1)a.Type=Msn.VE.BrowserType.MSIE;else if(a.UserAgent.indexOf("Opera")!=-1)a.Type=Msn.VE.BrowserType.Opera;else a.Type=Msn.VE.BrowserType.Unknown;
...

As you can see, there is a misguided sniff for Gecko in the code. Since Webkit has a "(KHTML, like Gecko)" substring inside the user agent string, this detection goes into the wrong code path and dies in a fire.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Works when spoofing as Firefox 2.0.0.2.  This is an evangelism issue.  See also Bug 6519.

Tested using a local debug build of WebKit r30353.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

*** Bug 16499 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

*** Bug 17049 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Tom Gilder]

*** Bug 18800 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Robert Blaut]

The reported issue is already fixed. New version of script works fine in the latest WebKit: http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=6.1

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

The page does work now with ToT WebKit.

Note that clicking on the "push pins" gives an error when trying to load <javascript://pushin%20hover>, but changing the href attributes to "#" fixes the issue.  This doesn't seem to be a WebKit bug anymore.