Still more spelunking found another fix, related to the first. I had,
in my code to be inserted, a Unicode em-dash. When I changed this to
a decimal entity, everything worked again in Safari.
Very odd. I suppose that this is a Safari bug, since I can't
duplicate it on Firefox.
Walter
On Feb 5, 2008, at 4:37 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
>
>
> On Feb 5, 2008, at 3:10 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
>
>> In Safari 3, if I inspect the page, I can see that the correct
>> JavaScript is coming back, but it's apparently not firing. I've tried
>> all sorts of things, even very basic alerts, but they're not firing.
>>
>> The code that should be firing is in a script tag, and the
>> Element.update documentation clearly states that any such code will
>> be executed when the element is updated. And in Firefox, this seems
>> to be the case.
>>
>
> A bit more troubleshooting has unlocked part of the mystery. The code
> I am inserting is a full <li>, and I am adding it into an UL. So my
> fragment looks like this:
>
> <li><p>A comment, just made by the person using the form</p><p
> class="author">—Person's Name</p></li>
>
> If I try to insert that using Safari, I get nothing -- no error --
> just nothing.
>
> If I encode it in HTML entities, then it inserts, but of course
> displays as code -- not what I want.
>
> If I encode it in HTML entities, then insert it with $
> ('reflist').insert({top:mycode.unescapeHTML()}), then it ALMOST works
> -- everything is fine except for the class="author" part, which
> Safari's Web Inspector shows as being coded as class=""author"" (and
> of course does not honor).
>
> Through it all, Firefox is a good soldier, and does what I want.
>
> It seems as though the whole problem is with escaping characters
> while passing the string to insert, but I'm completely baffled how to
> get this to work. Should I try JSON encoding the parameter? Or maybe
> build up the inserted LI from DOM objects?
>
>
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