Drupal, JQuery Ajax requests and Firefox [#177890]

The jQuery library (version 1.0.4) shipped with Drupal 5.x version doesn't work correctly with Firefox browser. This is due to a bug in Firefox.
The bug arises when you try to submit Ajax requests in synchronous mode.
The problem is that Firefox doesn't fire the onreadystate event and in this manner the function declared on success property won't be executed.

See the attachment for a patch and here : http://www.speedtech.it/drupal-jquery-ajax-synchronous
for already patched files.

Roberto

Comment	File	Size	Author
	jquery-1.0.4.patch	532 bytes	Roberto Gerola

Comments

Comment #1

darren oh

English

Lakeland, Florida

commented 30 September 2007 at 23:36

Priority:	Normal	» Critical
Status:	Active	» Reviewed & tested by the community

Thanks! This has finally made Chat Room alerts stable.

Comment #2

drumm

he/him

NY, US

commented 6 October 2007 at 22:56

Status:

Reviewed & tested by the community

» Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

I would generally like to leave the jQuery code to the jQuery developers; but we are sticking with their 1.0.x release series and I expect 1.0.4 will be the last there. I did briefly look at jQuery 1.2.1 to see if I could find evidence of this patch, and I think I did. It would be good to see the jQuery and/or Firefox bugs in their trackers.

Comment #3

dries commented 7 October 2007 at 07:39

I'd stick with the jQuery 1.0.x series in Drupal 5. I'd report this 'upstream' and request that the jQuery team releases a jQuery 1.0.5 release. If the official word is that there won't be a jQuery 1.0.5 release, we might consider patching our version. (Upgrading to jQuery 1.1 is not an option for the Drupal 5 release series.)