Freaky People Productions

Discovered yesterday that an update in the Google Maps API causes older Safari systems (1.3.2, the most current for OS X 10.3) to crash. Hard.

Luckily, after wading through plenty of ranting about why old browsers should be kicked to the curb (not a particularly useful solution if you’re trying to make your page interactive AND compatible for your audience), I found an easy tweak that in the short term will stop a hard crash. Without resorting to a browser detect, or rendering a static version of the map. Read the rest of this entry »