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You're doing it the hard way by using $.ajax(). It's easier to use $.getJSON() instead.

Warren Young 2009-10-02 03:32:39

Funny you say that, because IE6 didn't like .getJSON at all, at least with the .ajax call IE6 is alerting in the success. IE6 never hit "success" with .getJSON I fought with that for 8-10 hours, before switching to .ajax and getting a success alert right away... now it just won't build the list items.

2009-10-02 03:35:47

jQuery does a good job of insulating you from browser differences, but it won't save you from yourself if you write code that relies on browser implementation details. Just for one example: [1, 2, 3,].length is 3 on all browsers but IE, where it's 4, the last element being "undefined". My point is, you're probably doing something wrong if $.getJSON() isn't working. I would run your program under Firebug on Firefox and the F12 stuff on IE8. One of these is likely to flag an error in your code, which when fixed, will then allow the code to run on IE6.

Warren Young 2009-10-02 03:41:46

Well, you twisted my arm to go back to getJSON and it worked! I should have tried it again! My original issue was a malformed JSON array that Safari and Firefox were a little more forgiving about than IE was being... after validating that array I should have tried getJSON again...

2009-10-02 03:58:30

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$.ajax({
 url: jsonLink,
 dataType: 'json',
 success: function(data) {
  $.each(data.items, function(i,item){
  // your code ..
  });
 }
});

yoda 2009-10-02 03:53:03

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