Example on Ajax/Geometry Breaks with IE

I have tried to run the Ajax/Geometry example with IE 6 and it does not work. I do not have IE JS script debugger so I do not know why it broke.

—K

I’m sorry to hear that. I confess to not having had time to test again the entire codebase after the latest lib changes. I’ll try and find a moment to test that up in the coming days, and will reply here (and post an errata on the book’s blog, if need be).

Thanks for the heads up!

Hey Khoivu,

I finally found a moment to test the Ajax geometry example on IE6, as provided in the code archive for the book. Functionally, it works like a charm, so I don’t know what kind of issue you have, perhaps you typed it yourself and forgot a tiny thing?

On the other hand, the CSS doesn’t work so well (IE6 doesn’t size positioned elements based on left and right only, it requires width), so I tweaked the CSS for it and will upload it in a book erratum at some point.

Here is the changed part of geometry.css:

.widget {
  position: absolute; top: 5em; width: 15em;
  border: 0.25em solid gray; background: silver;
  padding: 2em 0.5em 0.5em;
}

.widget h2 {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0; left: 0; width: 15.6em; height: 1.5em;
  font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;
  margin: 0; padding: 0 0.2em;
  background: gray; cursor: move;
}

‘hope this helps,

- Christophe