You were right (as I too had suspected), the problem was not with
jquery. The Chrome JS interpreter balked at a line of my code (which
looked something like '[var1,var2]=somestring.split(":");' which is
perhaps a bit Perlish, but which the Firefox JS interpreter didn't
mind). Once I fixed that, the other problem (which did not seem to me
to be related!) went away!
pw
On Dec 22, 2:01 pm, John Arrowwood <jarro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with jQuery. I use $.ajax flawlessly
> on Safari. However, I did note that some browsers are more forgiving than
> others with respect to the data and the data type matching. Make sure you
> are telling your ajax call what kind of data it should expect back from the
> server, and that may solve your problem.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:51 AM, pw <pwise...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Dec 22, 10:34 am, "T.J. Simmons" <theimmortal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'd provide more detail; $.ajax should work in every browser. There's
> > > more than likely an issue with the script or the response. An example
> > > of what you're doing would work wonders for helping us figure it out.
>
> > > - T.J.
> > > > On 12/22/09, pw <pwise...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > I have a script which relies on $.ajax to retrieve data from my
> > > > > server. It works flawlessly in Firefox (Gecko), but is broken in
> > > > > Chrome and Arora (two webkit-based browsers). Are there known
> > issues,
> > > > > or do I need to provide more detail?
>
> > OK, here's some more detail. The actual application is password
> > protected, because it contains student data. I have a student
> > 'facebook' in which each student in a class becomes a 'property' of
> > the class roll, which is globally defined, in a variable called 's',
> > so "var s = {};" Then a function populates this object with the
> > students and some properties, e.g. s['jsmith'].absent = new Array();
> > in which will be recorded student absences. The user then checks a
> > box by the student picture, and selects 'Mark Absent' from a menu.
> > The date is pushed onto the s['jsmith'].absent array. This works in
> > Firefox, but in Chrome I get "TypeError: cannot read property 'jsmith'
> > of undefined". I'm saving the data to my server as a data string,
> > with $.ajax
> > ({async:"false",cache:"false",url:"<cgiscript>",contentType:"text/
> > plain",processData:false,data:dataString,type:"POST"}); and retrieving
> > it with $.ajax
> > ({dataType:"text",cache:"false",url:"<filename>",success:function
> > (data,status){ eval(data); });
>
> > It's entirely possible that what I'm seeing has nothing to do with
> > jquery but is rather due to the webkit javascript implementation, so
> > apologies if that's so. But if anyone could point me in the right
> > direction, I'd appreciate it.
>
> > pw
>
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