hey everybody!
This is my first post here, so I'll say hello first.
My name is Manuel, and I study Software Eng. in Argentina.
I've been using mootools for about a year now, and every day
I'm surprised by the magic you can do with it :D
Hmmm... well
I'm doing a web where I heavily use AJAX requests to
a XML service. In fact, my web is a fronte-nd with almost
no server whatsoever and uses AJAX to communicate with
the back-end.
Everything was going fine (I developed and tested in Ubuntu 9.04
and Firefox 3.0 as a browser).
One day I decided to see how my web did in IE8...
horror!
Nothing was working as it marvelously did in Firefox.
To be more specific, the Request.HTML's were not working.
As I said, my web relied heavily on that, so nothing worked.
I spent a day trying to get something running but I had no luck..
The only conclusion to which I arrived was that the XML was
incorrecltly parsed
(I hope I'm in mistake). Let's get to the code:
var req = new Request.HTML({
url: 'service/Catalog.groovy',
onSuccess: function(responseTree, responseElements) {
var catz = responseElements.filter('category');
catz.each(function(cat){
// cat = $(cat);
var cat_id = cat.get('id');
var subcategory = cat.getElement('subcategory');
alert(cat_id);
alert(cat.get('html'));
alert(subcategory.get('html'));
}
},
onFailure: function(){...}
});
for example, that piece of code.
In firefox, it worked perfectly. It alerted an ID (for example, 7),
then it showed the contents of the category element, for example:
<subcategory id='1'>
<category_id>7</category_id>
<code>ACTIO</code>
<name>Action</name>
</subcategory>
and then it showed the contents of some inner element, in this case:
<category_id>7</category_id>
<code>ACTIO</code>
<name>Action</name>
In IE8, the first alert worked OK (alerted 7)
but the next alert (alert(cat.get('html'));) gave an empty string
and the last threw an Exception... it said something about subcategory
beeing null.
What I concluded with this all is that the elements where parsed
correctly
in Firefox, but in IE8 I only got the tags and the attributes OK,
everything else
was completely wrong (in fact, missing). I mean, the inner content of
all the
elements of the response where gone!
Other fact you could use: this code:
alert(cat.get('tag')); resulted in
Firefox: category
IE8: /category <-----------(?)
hmm what else...
oh yeah... the line you see commented above (cat = $(cat);) was
something
I tried to do to fix this. I read in the mootools Docs that IE needed
to explicitly call
the $ function on elements to get all the Element-magic ... but this
didn't fix anything.
I was so desperate... I even fiddled arround with mootools.js' code
OK, so...
What I want you, dear mootool-pro's is to help me solve this problem,
for I REALLY need the web to function in IE8, and in fact I chose
mootools
to forget about compatibility problems...
Well... sorry for my shaky english and post length!
Thanks a million in advance!
Manuel
ps: if something is not clear, please ASK! I'd appreciate any help :D
