Street View and Black Box

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Thing One

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Aug 23, 2011, 5:34:16 PM8/23/11
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There must have been an update with flash, one of the many internet
browsers, with java, or on Google's end because now the street view
widget yields a blank black box instead of the Street View as seen on
the widget page.

http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/Google_Street_View

I've checked with other users across different platforms, browsers,
OSes, from different parts of the world and they all see the black box
only.

Google fixed their embedding issue on their own street view page here:

http://maps.google.com/intl/en/help/maps/streetview/index.html

Up until just recently where you see the Roman Coliseum, that was
black boxed as well. Whatever they did on their end to fix their
stuff, it didn't help get the widget going again.

My flash is updated, I ran cc cleaner, reset IE, and restarted.

None of that helped. When I rebooted I decided to try to run your
Bookmarklet and found that it was broken too. I figured perhaps some
of the lat, long info changed as I read that on some forums.....that
didn't help. The Bookmarklet was totally broken. I updated java and
now the bookmarklet works again.

However, I can't get any of the data it captures to show on media wiki
pages. I can't see it in any of the latest versions of the following:
Chrome, Opera, IE, Firefox. I even had friend check on their ends if
they could see anything more than a black box. They could not.

I'm not a coder and I don't know what else to do to fix it. Please
help. The widget was so lovely and worked so well, I really don't want
to have it stay in such a sad state.

Please please help!

Thanks,

Kathleen

Udezignit

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Aug 30, 2011, 6:07:23 AM8/30/11
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Hey QUICK FIX If you edit your /Widget:Google_Street_View page and
change the line google.load("maps", "2.x"); to 2.s this will fix
it for you and load the stable version.
google.load("maps", "2.s");

Hope that helps

Dave
http://www.udezignit.com

Thing One

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Aug 30, 2011, 6:45:47 AM8/30/11
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Thanks! We got that a few days ago in our help and google api
discussions. It's good to have a record of it though. I'm not sure if
Sergey updated his widget. I haven't checked lately.

On Aug 30, 3:07 am, Udezignit <i...@udezignit.com> wrote:
> Hey QUICK FIX  If you edit your /Widget:Google_Street_View page and
> change the line  google.load("maps", "2.x");    to 2.s this will fix
> it for you and load the stable version.
>  google.load("maps", "2.s");
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Davehttp://www.udezignit.com

Sergey Chernyshev

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Aug 30, 2011, 8:04:26 AM8/30/11
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No, I did not - I'm on vacation and will be back later in the week, hope to roll back and update to 2.s

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