Seems we were a bit premature in promoting MapKit to bloggers. Seems the converting of line breaks, the stripping of .js and the wysiwyg vs plain text editors are conspiring against many bloggers.
Updated code and clarified documentation coming very shortly.
UPDATE:
In our excitement to get this into the hands of eager users, we neglected one big chunk of QA: Adding a MapKit in a blog post may break the XML of an associated RSS feed. Use with caution. This particular issue may be fixed by wrapping the code in a "cdata" tag
Here is a summary of what we have learned so far. Please get back to us with any more information you may come across.
Does It Work on...MySpace, TypePad, Blogger, WordPress, my website?
The various blog products and services process the entry content in several ways. Some strip out javascript, some convert the ampersand and other characters in a way that breaks the functionality, even when posted as 'plain text' or 'html'. The javascript has also been known to actually break the RSS of an entire site. Basically, be careful using this inside a blog. We recommend using it outside the post heirarchy, either in the template somewhere (we've seen it used in the header of a blog) or in a seperate page (like the 'about' page offered on many blogs). If the code is being appended with 'br' tags, you may have to convert the entire code snippet into a single line of plain text.
Details on known blog products and services
- MySpace
- Not supported
- TypePad
- Adding into a post in the 'html' tab works.
- Creating a new page using advanced templates works.
- Blogger
- You cannot add it as a Post to your Blogger blog, but you can insert it into the template (like in the page header).
- WordPress
- We are currently working with WordPress.com on a custom integration.
- This Widget Plugin may be able to help those with self hosted WordPress blogs.
- My own html site
- The only known issue on html sites is that the page must actually contain a
tag."body"
- The only known issue on html sites is that the page must actually contain a
If your service does not work with MapKit, send the site a feedback email asking for it. They may not know that their users want map widgets.
Ok, again, thanks for bearing with us on this hectic day of quick fixes!!
More info, more docs, more fixes still rolling out.
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