What does histars() do?


Joey T wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> This is my first round with jQuery, which I think is absolutely
> fantastic, btw.
> 
> At any rate, I have encountered a funky bug which seems to be IE /
> Internet Explorer specific.
> 
> after completing a .getJSON request, whenever a numeric value is
> returned, IE is rounding the number, not returning the full decimal.
> I am not seeing this behavior in Firefox or Safari.
> 
> The code to generate the JSON return data is pretty straight forward:
> 
>       $json = '{ "avg": "' . $average . '", "count": "'.$count.'" }';
> 
> as you can see, all values are wrapped in double quotes.
> 
> When I load any element or event with the value from the return data
> set in jquery/javascript it is always rounded to the nearest whole
> number - but only on IE !  This occurs even if I pass the return data
> value off to a prepared variable such as :: var rating = new Number();
> 
> example jQuery code:
> 
>       $(document).ready(function() {
>               $.getJSON('rate.php', {
>                               rating: '0'     /* doesn't apply a new rating, 
> just returns the
> count and avg */
>                       }, function(data) {
>                               rating = data.avg;
> 
>                               histars(rating);
> 
>                               
> $('#starMsg').text(starMsg[0]).attr('title',rating);
>                       }
>               );
>       });
> 
> for instance, this example will always set the span id=starMsg title
> element to '3' on IE, but in FF or Safari the title element will be
> '3.05'
> 
> I have searched around for an answer to this, as I would think it is
> an IE issue, obviously - but is it perhaps related to jQuery too?  Has
> anyone else had this issue, if so, how do they deal with it ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jt
> 
> 
> 

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