IE is killing me

Posted on August 15, 2006  •  1 minutes  • 161 words

As happy as I was that I was using AJAX in my latest webapp (http://www.proco.be ) as disappointed I was that the prototype library (Ajax.Update in particular) didn’t seem to work on larger datasets in IE since its header has a certain limit. As usual IE just swallows the error.

Since webwork is using dojo internally I was given a choice, but I found prototype easier to use, so now I was forced using dojo. OK modifying, debugging couple of hours later… system error -1072896748 in IE’s usual javascript error box WTF??

Googling a bit pointed me to some weird error in the MSXML parser that couldn’t handle UTF-8 (mind the dash). OK fixed, another error in IE, what’s next…

Well got an even nicer one.. Seems if you take an element and give it id=“description” and try setting the innerHtml of it it won’t work. Setting it to whatever magically fixes the stuff. Why is following the standards so hard?