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Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 14:50:20 +0100
From: Ben Pope <benpope81@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Transparent and automatic AJAX support for CForms
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Sylvain Wallez wrote:
> Leszek Gawron wrote:
>> It looks really promising. I was not able to run the samples. Firefox 
>> has rendered the retrieved list as text (outside selection widget). IE 
>> just showed javascript error and did nothing.
> 
> 
> 
> Doh! I understand why you say "promising" :-(
> 
> I tested it successfully with Firefox 1.0 on MacOS and Windows and IE 6. 
> The behaviour you describe with Firefox is what I had to fight a lot 
> with: Node.importNode() effectively imports nodes, but that doesn't mean 
> they're considered as HTML nodes, in which case only their text is 
> displayed.
> 
> If you look at the new DOMUtils.importNode() in the new cforms.js, 
> you'll see the quirks I used to workaround this weirdness: use ".xml" 
> and ".innerHTML" properties with IE, and traverse the node tree for 
> other browsers. I'm far from being a JS-on-browsers expert, so that may 
> for sure not be the most "compatible" solution.
> 
> Is there something printed in Firefox's JS console, and what is the IE 
> error?

I.e. says:
Line: 91
Char: 5
Error: Object doesn't support this property or method.
Code: 0

The line in question:
xmlhttp.open("GET", "xhr_cars/" + make.value, true);

Perhaps thats make.value with the problem?


Firefox on Windows doesn't say anything, it's quite happy.

Ben