hi,

i recently upgraded to zenphoto 1.4 and i have some problems with the new googlemap plugin:

i tried to create an album map for the default/dark theme by copying most of the code from the effervescence_plus code.

however, the initial zoom is completely wrong for this map, e.g. http://back-country.org/zenphoto/icelandtrek/

if i activate the "hide" option in the admin panel, clicking on "show map" link in the album seems to run a javascript which pretty much crashes (or slows down) firefox (this problem is not reproducable every time)...

any suggestions on how to solve these problems?

also, i was wondering if there is an option to have a different map size on the album page?

update: i just noticed that the zoom in the album map is correct for safari, but firefox (win+mac versions) and ie zoom into a different area

also, the album map in safari takes much longer to load than the standard google map page?!

I do not know why there would be differences between browsers in the Javascript execution. There is a small bit of javascript needed to set the bounding frame (zoom) the map. This is a very small javascipt function, but who knows what the Google processing requires.

One of the theories I have on this might be a localization issue as I have not been able to reproduce the problems. Only reports so far have been from Euorpe.

Seems like you're right: Switching the language preference of Firefox from German to English fixes the zoom...

I guess Safari shows the correct zoom because my language preference is set to English there.

Still, it would be great if this could be fixed for languages different than English

Well, Zenphoto does do nothing different for GoogleMap for different languages. However, the Google Map processing has known issues when rendering a map in "the wrong sized" frame. So maybe your site is a bit different in German. Be sure that the map dimensions fit within whatever CSS "frame" you have defined.