Topic awaiting preservation: Javascript and Firefox

The following page has Javascript and uses the xmlhttp request object to perform a client-side roundrtrip to the server to fetch additional information for a club within a state, and the club information. It does not work at all in Firefox. Any clues why not?

http://meetscoresonline.com/yourevent/registerevent.asp

Just a guess (I don't know a lot about JavaScript ), but I'm seeing 'browser sniffing', which imo should be avoided, 'nn4', which should also be avoided, but more importantly I doubt is equivalent to any modern Netscape or Mozilla (Firefox), and ActiveX...let's not get started on that.

For XMPHTTPRequest it's not an instant thing (ergo the asynchrounous).

You need to assign an eventhandler to process the returned XML

if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
        req = new XMLHttpRequest();
        req.open("GET", url, false);
        req.send(null);
    // branch for IE/Windows ActiveX version
    } else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
        req = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
        if (req) {
            req.open("GET", url, false);
            req.send();
        }
    }

I'd do somthing like this

if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
        req = new XMLHttpRequest();
    // branch for IE/Windows ActiveX version
    } else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
        req = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");

    }
        if (req) {
            req.open("GET", url, false);
            req.onreadystatechage = doSomething; // This is the key line
            req.send();
        }

Then you create a function called "doSomething" to actually process the incoming data. Realize this isn't actually a request/response next action process.

I think you got your code from this site

Follow the steps in there for setting up the doSomething function



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