It looks like that was it. I just made the change and it works perfectly. Thanks Tom.
RR On Jun 19, 5:09 pm, Tom Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Short answer: IE doesn't look for the mousemove event on the window > object. Use document instead. > > (There might be a patch here if the devs think it's important-- > Event.observe already catches 'keypress' in Safari, and converts it > to 'keydown') > > TAG > ==================================== > Proof: > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";> > <html> > <head> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> > <title>untitled</title> > <script type="text/javascript" src="js/prototype.js"></script> > <script type="text/javascript"> > function watch(e) { > $('debug').update( > '[ X: ' + Event.pointerX(e) + ' / Y: ' + Event.pointerY(e) +' > ]\n' > ); > > } > > window.onload = function () { > $('debug').update('Loading ...'); > Event.observe(window, 'mousemove', watch); // Change window w/ > document > //window.onmousemove = watch; > $('debug').update('Loaded.');} > > </script> > </head> > <body> > <pre id="debug">(empty)</pre> > </body> > </html> > > On Jun 19, 2007, at 2:18 PM, RighteousRaven wrote: > > >> It's a bit hard to help without a complete, minimal code sample (and > >> the specific, unhelpful IE error message). > > > That's part of what is weird... there is no error message. The > > observed function just isnt getting called in IE.... but its perfect > > in FF. > > >> 1. Check to make sure you don't have a trailing comma after the last > >> element your curly braces. (Common problem) > > > Not it... > > >> 2. Because you posted an edited sample.... are you sure the observe() > >> is being called *after* pMenu is defined? > > > observe() is being called within pMenu.show(), with the mousemove > > event calling pMenu.watching(). I tried rearranging the order of the > > definitions of show and watching, but to no avail. > > > I had thought that Event.observe was supposed to be cross browser, and > > without an error message I feel super-lost. > > > RR --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
