Question

wonder if anyone can help.

Bascially I’m working on a site, and a chunk of functionlity works great in all browsers apart from ie8. It doesn’t throw an error as such. Just doesn’t behave correctly.

Bascially here; http://new.jda.co.uk/?page_id=12

if you click on any of those companies – it should bring up a lightbox which has a xml/javascript populated carousel relevant to the company clicked. In ie8 it just throws up the one company every time.

Any thoughts? I’m not fantastic at browser/javascript debugging so I’m struggling to get to the bottom of this.

Thanks

I have looked a bit more into this; and it seems the js file is loading fine, the xml file is being written correctly – but when it comes to the parsexml function – it seems to be hanging onto the same set of data regradless of what you click;

function parsexml(){
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
  {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
  xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
  }
else
  {// code for IE6, IE5
  xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  }
xmlhttp.open("GET","write.xml",false);
xmlhttp.send();
xmlDoc=xmlhttp.responseXML;


}

As far as I can see this narrows it down to this section not reading in and updating the latest file – does the ie8 browser interpret this code differently somehow ?

Also I just checked the actual write.xml file on the server…this updates every time. If I browse to the file ie8 – it doesn’t update. If I close the browser and fire up try again, it updates to the saved file !

Answer 1

Probably Cache issue – the file write.xml is being cached in the XMLHttpRequest somehow.

Try having:

xmlhttp.open("GET","write.xml?randNumberHere",false);

Where randNumberHere is some random number you generate.