I've pushed my workaround (inline events) to the live link above, but
I've got my original code at

http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/114281111391296844949/driving-directions-jquery.xml

If anyone has any thoughts as to how I could use jQuery to
successfully bind these events in syndication, it would be
appreciated.  Thanks very much.

E

On Jun 22, 3:44 pm, skeeJay <[email protected]> wrote:
> This one is fun/frustrating.  jQuery seems to be behaving differently
> in syndication than on iGoogle.  Worse, the problem is occurring in
> Safari 4 and Chrome, but not Safari 3.
>
> http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/114281111391296844949/dri...
>
> Near the top of the script section, right after the comment "//event
> bindings", I use jQuery (1.3.2) to bind two events to text inputs, a
> blur function and a focus focus, which are responsible for the simple
> tasks of switching the defaultValue in and out as "hint" text when the
> field is blank.  This works on iGoogle, but not in syndication on
> Safari 4 or Chrome.
>
> Does anyone have thoughts on why this behavior is happening?  Rolling
> back to jQuewry 1.3.1 doesn't work.  So far, the prettiest workaround
> I've been able to find is to switch to simple onblur and onfocus
> inline events on the <input>s.  This, though—obviously—is decidedly un-
> jQuery.
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