BTW, it is working. Here is the output of http://jsbin.com/umuwi :
Hello from JS Bin
www.trumphurst.com
ready
sent request
got reply
href received
On Jun 26, 1:45 pm, Nikki Locke <ni...@trumphurst.com> wrote:
> Further to this, my real application is hanging the browser, and I
> don't know how to find out what is wrong :-(
>
> I have tried it with IE8, Firefox, Safari and Chrome - the browser
> always hangs at some point.
>
> Any suggestions what to try next would be very gratefully received.
>
> On 25 June, 20:57, Nikki Locke <ni...@trumphurst.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I am building a web app that is controlled from a server. I want the
> > server to send objects to the app, which the app then processes. I am
> > using getScript for this, but it doesn't seem to be working for me.
> > I have example code at //jsbin.com/umuwi
>
> > This code calls getScript on the url ://jsbin.com/utake - this returns
> > the following text:
> > _jq_action={type:"href"};
>
> > I call getScript as follows:
>
> > var _jq_action;
>
> > $(document).ready(function(){
> > _jq_getaction();
>
> > });
>
> > function _jq_getaction() {
> > try {
> > _jq_action = null;
> > $.getScript("http://jsbin.com/utake";, _jq_processaction);
> > _jq_log("sent request");
> > } catch(e) {
> > alert(e);
> > }
>
> > }
>
> > function _jq_processaction() {
> > try {
> > _jq_log("got reply");
> > if(_jq_action) {
> > _jq_log(_jq_action.type + " received");
> > } else {
> > _jq_log("no action");
> > }
> > } catch(e) {
> > alert(e);
> > }
>
> > }
>
> > _jq_log is a function which merely outputs messages to the screen, so
> > I can see what is going on.
>
> > The request gets sent, but _jq_action is always null.
>
> > Nikki Locke
