[jQuery] Re: asynchronous, IE, and BlockUI

2009-02-16 Thread Mike Alsup
>Can this be made to work? No, not in an x-browser way. That's one reason that strictly synchronous processing is a bad idea. You need to introduce at least one async step to pull this off or some browsers will not render the DOM changes made by blockUI until thread execution completes. $('#my

[jQuery] Re: asynchronous, IE, and BlockUI

2009-02-16 Thread Charles H
Mike: If you are validating a form before submitting, or doing validation in a link onclick, you could do synchronous ajax, and when it returns, it could have an event bubble boolean. If return true, then everything is ok, continue submitting the form or clicking the button, if false, then thing

[jQuery] Re: asynchronous, IE, and BlockUI

2009-02-13 Thread Mike Alsup
> I have the exact same problem as this post below from a while back, > which got no valid response. The reason that I need to use synchronous > calls is that on some ajax submittals we either submit the entire page > or return a message to the user, depending on validations - > asynchronous will