diff --git a/examples/canvas-hit-detection.html b/examples/canvas-hit-detection.html
index fc4bda69a7..1b9600f091 100644
--- a/examples/canvas-hit-detection.html
+++ b/examples/canvas-hit-detection.html
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@
 <html>
     <head>
         <title>OpenLayers Canvas Hit Detection Example</title>
+        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=no, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0;">
+        <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
         <link rel="stylesheet" href="../theme/default/style.css" type="text/css">
-        <link rel="stylesheet" href="../theme/default/google.css" type="text/css">
         <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css">
         <script src="../lib/OpenLayers.js"></script>
     </head>
@@ -14,6 +16,11 @@ <h1 id="title">Feature Hit Detection with Canvas</h1>
         </p>
         <div id="map" class="smallmap"></div>
         <div id="docs">
+            <p>
+                Click on the features above to see them selected.  This example 
+                uses the Canvas renderer so it only works on browsers where 
+                canvas is supported.
+            </p>
             <p>
                 View the <a href="canvas-hit-detection.js" target="_blank">canvas-hit-detection.js</a>
                 source to see how this is done.
diff --git a/examples/canvas-hit-detection.js b/examples/canvas-hit-detection.js
index b45562eab0..abc6897381 100644
--- a/examples/canvas-hit-detection.js
+++ b/examples/canvas-hit-detection.js
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ var Rule = OpenLayers.Rule;
 var Filter = OpenLayers.Filter;
 var style = new OpenLayers.Style({
     pointRadius: 10,
-    strokeWidth: 2,
+    strokeWidth: 3,
     strokeOpacity: 0.7,
     strokeColor: "navy",
     fillColor: "#ffcc66",
@@ -83,6 +83,6 @@ var map = new OpenLayers.Map({
     zoom: 0
 });
 
-var select = new OpenLayers.Control.SelectFeature(layer, {hover: true});
+var select = new OpenLayers.Control.SelectFeature(layer);
 map.addControl(select);
 select.activate();
