Google slideshow shows a blank screen when calling from ajax

Question

I'm having problems implementing google slideshow (http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/slideshow/index.html) to my web application by loading it using a jquery load() function.

index.html:

<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.2.js"></script>
<div id="moshe"></div>

<script type="text/javascript">

 $(document).ready(function(){
 $('#moshe').load('test.html');
 });

</script>

test.html:

<script type="text/javascript">
function load() {
  var samples = "http://dlc0421.googlepages.com/gfss.rss";
  var options = {
    displayTime: 2000,
    transistionTime: 600,
    linkTarget : google.feeds.LINK_TARGET_BLANK
  };
  new GFslideShow(samples, "slideshow", options);

}
google.load("feeds", "1");
google.setOnLoadCallback(load);
</script>
<div id="slideshow" class="gslideshow" style="width:300px;height:300px;position:relative; border: 2px solid blue">Loading...</div>

When i execute the test.html, it loads the slideshow just fine. when i try to load using index.html that actually calls Jquery's $.load() function that loads the content of test.html into a specific div element, i see that the gallery is loading on that div, but when it's about to show images the entire page clears and all i have is a blank page.

Any ideas ?

---

a different version of index.html without using jquery:

<script type="text/javascript">
   function makeRequest(url) {
        var httpRequest;

       if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari, ...
           httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
           if (httpRequest.overrideMimeType) {
               httpRequest.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
               // See note below about this line
           }
       }
       else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
           try {
               httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
           }
           catch (e) {
               try {
                   httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
               }
            catch (e) {}
        }
       }

      if (!httpRequest) {
         alert('Giving up :( Cannot create an XMLHTTP instance');
         return false;
      }
      httpRequest.onreadystatechange = function() { alertContents(httpRequest); };
      httpRequest.open('GET', url, true);
     httpRequest.send('');

  }

function alertContents(httpRequest) {

    if (httpRequest.readyState == 4) {
        if (httpRequest.status == 200) {
            document.getElementById('moshe').innerHTML=httpRequest.responseText;
        } else {
            alert('There was a problem with the request.');
           }
       }

   }
makeRequest('test.html');
</script>

Answer 1

try putting

$('#moshe').load('test.html');

into

$(document).ready(function(){
    $('#moshe').load('test.html');
});

also, i don't know if you copied or typed this in, but you have

<script style="text/javascript">

when you want

<script type="text/javascript">

i personally use:

<script language="javascript">

but i'm not sure which is best.