Turns out I should eat some humble pie. In my haste I neglected to add
header('Content-type: text/xml; charset=utf-8'); to the PHP and IE in
it's typical non standards way interpreted it correctly without it so
I never questioned it until now.Adding that header fixed the problem with Firefox (and it still works in IE). Thanks for getting back so quickly, I'm sure I will have a few other minor questions as it gets closer to launch day! Ritchie > Are you serving the xml from the same site as the timeline page? Could > be a cross-site-scripting issue. > Ritchie wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Hope I'm in the right place for this, if not please point me in the >> right direction! >> >> I've almost finished a major project using the Simile Timeline (great >> app by the way!) and I have left testing in FireFox a bit late it >> would seem. >> >> I have a working timeline that is fed by a document called >> timeline.xml.php - as you would imagine it's a dynamically created XML >> file. >> >> On testing with IE6 and 7 all works perfectly. However if I use >> FireFox 2 then I get an empty timeline. If I take the feed from >> timeline.xml.php and save it into timeline.xml (and change the >> javascript accordingly) then it works fine in FireFox. >> >> If I open timeline.xml.php in firefox then it correctly displays the >> XML. >> >> It's at this point that I'm stuck, I don't understand why FireFox >> appears to have an issue with the dynamic XML. >> >> Is this a bug or just me doing something I shouldn't? >> >> Any help or pointers most appreciated! >> >> Thanks >> >> Ritchie >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general >> _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
