On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 01:38 +0200, Bryan M. wrote: > I'm trying to use jQuery to write all my js unobtrusively, and running > into a bit of a problem when triggering the format.js block in IE6 (and > possibly IE7). It returns the JSON string no problem, but instead of > parsing it, IE6 asks to download the resource as a .js file. > > So if my url is '/pictures/1.js', IE6 will ask to save or run '1.js'
did you try relaying on the request type per se,
without the .js on the url?
>
> I did do some digging, and I understand that IE sets */* on the Accept
> header. I'm not sure if it has to do with that or not. It is triggering
> the format I'm asking for. It's just that IE6 won't recognize it as a
> typical javascript response.
>
> Here's some code. Also note that this is for an image upload, so it's
> not a real AJAX request, and I'm using the jQuery Form plugin to post to
> an iframe.
>
> The details of my ajax call:
>
> var options = {
> url: /pictures/1.js,
> iframe: true,
> beforeSubmit: prepImageArea,
> success: imageUploaded,
> dataType: 'script',
> beforeSend: function(xhr) {xhr.setRequestHeader("Accept",
> "text/javascript")}
> }
>
> And my respond_to block:
>
> respond_to do |format|
> format.html { redirect_to edit_picture_path(@picture) }
> format.js { render :json => @picture.to_json(:methods =>
> [:public_filename, :large_thumb]) }
> end
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks.
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