browser compatability

[gerkintrigg]

are there any known reasons why an ajax call works fine in Safari and Chrome but does nothing whatsoever in IE and Firefox?

 

[Zane]

bad markup maybe?

 

where's your code (use code tags)

[gerkintrigg]

You're probably right anyway, but perhaps I was unclear... the initial ajax request seems to work fine, its the action of the new content that is problematic.

 

I have used this code to call the ajax request:

<form method="post" name="url_submission" id="url_submission" onSubmit="return MyAjaxRequest('credits_used','<?php echo $root;?>includes/credit_calculator.php?url='+url_submission.url.value);" style="width:580px;" action="javascript: MyAjaxRequest('credits_used','<?php echo $root;?>includes/credit_calculator.php?url='+url_submission.url.value);">

and then when it gets there, I have another form to either confirm or reject the submission like this:

<?php 
// start the session 
session_start(); 
header("Cache-control: private"); //IE 6 Fix 
$root='../';
include $root.'includes/db.php';

$q="SELECT `words_per_credit` FROM `customisation` WHERE `id`='1'";
$sql=mysql_query($q);
$r=mysql_fetch_array($sql);
# get the credit to word ratio:
$words_per_credit=$r['words_per_credit'];

#get the URL:
$url=$_GET['url'];

#find whether the url variable begins with www.
$findme   = 'www.';
$pos = strpos($url, $findme);
#if it doesn't begin with www. then make it begin with that:
if ($pos !== false) {
   
} else {
     $url='www.'.$url;
}

#find whether the url variable begins with http://
$findme   = 'http://';
$pos = strpos($url, $findme);
#if it doesn't begin with http:// then make it begin with that:
if ($pos !== false) {
   
} else {
     $url='http://'.$url;
}

///// The next line will download the HTML and put it into a variable called $page
$page = @file_get_contents($url);
#get the number of words in the page:
$word_count=str_word_count(strip_tags($page));

# now calculate the number of credits used
?>
<link href="../netshine.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<form onsubmit="horizon.style.visibility='visible'; blanket.style.visibility='visible';" action="<?php echo $root;?>includes/analyse.php" method="post" name="submit_url_form">
<!--<form method="post" name="url_submission" id="url_submission" onSubmit="return MyAjaxRequest('credits_used','<?php echo $root;?>includes/loading_analysis.php?url='+url_submission.url.value);" style="width:580px;" action="javascript: MyAjaxRequest('credits_used','<?php echo $root;?>includes/loading_analysis.php?url='+url_submission.url.value);">-->

  <span class="bottom_links">Analysing: </span><span class="Bold_Text"> <a href="<?php echo $url;?>" target="_blank" class="green_txt"><?php echo $url;?></a></span><br>
  <span class="red_txt">
  <?php $credits=ceil($word_count/$words_per_credit);
echo $credits;?> credit<?php if($credits>1){?>s<?php }?> will be used. Do you wish to continue?</span><br>
<?php if($credits>=6){?>
<span class="small_text">(Please note that this may take some time.)</span> <br>
<?php }?>
<input name="url" type="hidden" id="url" value="<?php echo $url;?>">
<input name="yes" type="image" style="width:38px; height:22px;" onclick="this.src='<?php echo $root;?>images/yes_btn_on.jpg';" onmouseover="this.src='<?php echo $root;?>images/yes_btn_over.jpg';" onmouseout="this.src='<?php echo $root;?>images/yes_btn_off.jpg';" src="<?php echo $root;?>images/yes_btn_off.jpg" alt="Yes"/>
    <a href="<?php echo $root;?>client_area/logged_in.php">
<input name="no" type="image" style="width:38px; height:22px;" onclick="this.src='<?php echo $root;?>images/no_btn_on.jpg';" onmouseover="this.src='<?php echo $root;?>images/no_btn_over.jpg';" onmouseout="this.src='<?php echo $root;?>images/no_btn_off.jpg';" src="<?php echo $root;?>images/no_btn_off.jpg" alt="No"/>
</a>
</form>

It works fine on Chrome but firefox just keeps popping up "loading" followed by the same yes/no form again, Internet explorer just hangs on loading and does nothing else, safari acts like chrome and is perfect.