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Google Map doesn't load in Thickbox in IE8

I have a Google Map (API v2).

It is located in http://mydomain/maps. Under that address it works fine in every browser.

I use it, however within a Thickbox (3.1) from the home site http://mydomain. That doesn't work in IE8 (but only in the IE8 mode; IE7 and IE8-compatibility work fine) - the output is as attached.
No Javascript errors occur in the console. alt text

Solution

  • It turned out to be due to the lack of doctype declaration.

    Adding

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

    solved the problem.