[jQuery] Re: JQuery effects not working in Internet Explorer 6

2009-02-06 Thread Henry 

On Feb 6, 10:30 am, Tintin81 wrote:
 I am new to Javascript and implemented a few nice JQuery
 features on a href=http://new.designbits.de;my new
 website/a . All of them work great in Firefox and Safari.

 In IE6, however, the site looks like a mess, even with
 Javascript enabled in the options panel.
snip

There are two JScript errors reported as that page loads in IE. The
first is a complaint about a missing ';' (and you will have to track
down yourself), the second is in your functions.js file where you
have:-

$.extend($.validator.messages, {
 required: ,
email: ,
});

- in which an object literal's contents end in a comma. This is a
syntax error by ECMAScript rules, and so should be expected to be a
syntax error in browsers that implement the ECMAScript standard (such
as JScript in IE (more or less)). The ECMA standard allows syntax
extension and JavaScript(tm) (and good JavaScript(tm) imitators) take
advantage of that to be more tolerant of commas at the end of object
literal contents than they need to be (as the extra commas do not
result in ambiguities). JScript doesn't and so sees the comma as a
syntax error, and so that is a very likely cause of differences in
behaviour between IE and other browsers. Particularly if the behaviour
on IE looks like total failure to act on a script.

[jQuery] Re: JQuery effects not working in Internet Explorer 6

2009-02-06 Thread Tintin81 

Hi Henry,

Thanks you very much for your help. I have eradicated the comma and
also did some other polishing work, but nothing has changed :-(

The error message I am getting in Internet Explorer 6 is still the
same. What bugs me is that Internet Explorer doesn't tell me the exact
name of the file that the error comes from.

It is constantly referring to a missing semicolon, but I can't figure
out where that might be. Not even in which file...

Can anybody come to the rescue?

Thanks for any help in this matter...




On Feb 6, 12:40 pm, Henry rcornf...@raindrop.co.uk wrote:
 On Feb 6, 10:30 am, Tintin81 wrote: I am new to Javascript and implemented a 
 few nice JQuery
  features on a href=http://new.designbits.de;my new
  website/a . All of them work great in Firefox and Safari.

  In IE6, however, the site looks like a mess, even with
  Javascript enabled in the options panel.

 snip

 There are two JScript errors reported as that page loads in IE. The
 first is a complaint about a missing ';' (and you will have to track
 down yourself), the second is in your functions.js file where you
 have:-

 $.extend($.validator.messages, {
      required: ,
     email: ,

 });

 - in which an object literal's contents end in a comma. This is a
 syntax error by ECMAScript rules, and so should be expected to be a
 syntax error in browsers that implement the ECMAScript standard (such
 as JScript in IE (more or less)). The ECMA standard allows syntax
 extension and JavaScript(tm) (and good JavaScript(tm) imitators) take
 advantage of that to be more tolerant of commas at the end of object
 literal contents than they need to be (as the extra commas do not
 result in ambiguities). JScript doesn't and so sees the comma as a
 syntax error, and so that is a very likely cause of differences in
 behaviour between IE and other browsers. Particularly if the behaviour
 on IE looks like total failure to act on a script.

[jQuery] Re: JQuery effects not working in Internet Explorer 6

2009-02-06 Thread ..:: sheshnjak ::.. 

First try to replace first line in code of your page with

!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN http://
www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd

and see if it resolves anything. It could be only that, if not then
try to validate your page (currently you have 20 warnings, no errors)
and remove problems. I think it should do it.

..:: sheshnjak ::..
www.tomislavdekovic.iz.hr

[jQuery] Re: JQuery effects not working in Internet Explorer 6

2009-02-06 Thread Tintin81 

Hi and thanks for your feedback.

Changing the document type didn't improve anything though :-(

I think the devil is in my functions.js file. Where would I validate
javascript files? Any ideas?

Thanks...



On Feb 6, 11:48 am, ..:: sheshnjak ::.. sheshn...@gmail.com wrote:
 First try to replace first line in code of your page with

 !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN 
 http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd;

 and see if it resolves anything. It could be only that, if not then
 try to validate your page (currently you have 20 warnings, no errors)
 and remove problems. I think it should do it.

 ..:: sheshnjak ::..www.tomislavdekovic.iz.hr

[jQuery] Re: JQuery effects not working in Internet Explorer 6

2009-02-06 Thread James 

I'm finding that it comes from the (packed) Validation plug-in script.
I think it might need a semi-colon at the end of that whole packed
string. Try adding that manually and see if it makes a differences.
Try the min version also if you haven't.

On Feb 6, 6:30 am, Tintin81 tkleem...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Henry,

 Thanks you very much for your help. I have eradicated the comma and
 also did some other polishing work, but nothing has changed :-(

 The error message I am getting in Internet Explorer 6 is still the
 same. What bugs me is that Internet Explorer doesn't tell me the exact
 name of the file that the error comes from.

 It is constantly referring to a missing semicolon, but I can't figure
 out where that might be. Not even in which file...

 Can anybody come to the rescue?

 Thanks for any help in this matter...

 On Feb 6, 12:40 pm, Henry rcornf...@raindrop.co.uk wrote:

  On Feb 6, 10:30 am, Tintin81 wrote: I am new to Javascript and implemented 
  a few nice JQuery
   features on a href=http://new.designbits.de;my new
   website/a . All of them work great in Firefox and Safari.

   In IE6, however, the site looks like a mess, even with
   Javascript enabled in the options panel.

  snip

  There are two JScript errors reported as that page loads in IE. The
  first is a complaint about a missing ';' (and you will have to track
  down yourself), the second is in your functions.js file where you
  have:-

  $.extend($.validator.messages, {
       required: ,
      email: ,

  });

  - in which an object literal's contents end in a comma. This is a
  syntax error by ECMAScript rules, and so should be expected to be a
  syntax error in browsers that implement the ECMAScript standard (such
  as JScript in IE (more or less)). The ECMA standard allows syntax
  extension and JavaScript(tm) (and good JavaScript(tm) imitators) take
  advantage of that to be more tolerant of commas at the end of object
  literal contents than they need to be (as the extra commas do not
  result in ambiguities). JScript doesn't and so sees the comma as a
  syntax error, and so that is a very likely cause of differences in
  behaviour between IE and other browsers. Particularly if the behaviour
  on IE looks like total failure to act on a script.