Fix github issue 267 GPX: handling of desc attribute.
Fix http://trac.osgeo.org/openlayers/ticket/3554

Finally using Util.isElement and nothing else for cross-platform
compatibility according to elemoine's comments.

Tested on Chromium 18 Ubuntu 12.04.
8 tests fail (detailed: fail 9). List follows.

23:13:26 test_respectZoom: Google tests can't be run from localhost:8000
23:14:22 test_write_wmc_Layer: Safari has wierd behavior with getElementsByTagNameNS: the result is that we can't run these tests there. Patches welcome.
23:16:15 test_Layer_Google_constructor: Google tests can't be run from localhost:8000
23:16:15 test_clone: Google tests can't be run from localhost:8000
23:16:15 test_Layer_Google_isBaseLayer: Google tests can't be run from localhost:8000
23:16:15 test_Layer_Google_Translation_lonlat: Google tests can't be run from localhost:8000
23:16:15 test_Layer_Google_Translation_pixel: Google tests can't be run from localhost:8000
23:16:15 test_Layer_destroy: Google tests can't be run from localhost:8000
23:16:15 test_Layer_Goole_forwardMercator: Google tests can't be run from localhost:8000
23:16:15 test_Layer_Google_overlay: Google tests can't be run from localhost:8000
23:16:15 test_Layer_Google_isBaseLayer: Google tests can't be run from localhost:8000
23:16:15 test_Layer_Google_setGMapVisibility: Google tests can't be run from localhost:8000
23:20:13 test_Layer_MapServer_Reproject: Can't test google reprojection in Opera or Safari.
23:20:18 test_Layer_WMS_Reproject: Can't test google reprojection in Opera or Safari.
add index to details
#2938: [patch] Comparason type like with null (property not present)
#2940 Add relations support for OSM format
#2940 add shared
add indexDistance to LineString distanceTo Point
don't sort
rm loop brake
add version
rm end white space
Adding unit tests.
Fix irregular character that Ruby/Rails objects to
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:openlayers/openlayers
TextButtonPanel allows the user to easily add Text/CSS buttons to the map that are styled like the zoom control.  This is a single commit containing of all the changes for TextButtonPanel.  I deleted the original TextButtonPanel branch, as I borked it.
remote unneeded createControlMarkup method
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:openlayers/openlayers
Zoomify - Fix for Wrong dimensions for marginal tiles for resolutions with dimensions dividable by tile size

- Fix for problem from this issue: https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/issues/928
Added curly braces to meet coding style, corrected height variable instead of width on L242
Moved the KML ExtendedData block above the geometry block to conform with the XML Schema