“<br style=’line-height:0px !important;’ />”+ajax.responseText

…

container.innerHTML = “”+ajax.responseText

…

Hope this helps anybody, it worked for me… after l LONG LONG hours(DAMN IE).

exec this with safari :

global eval

var screentest = function (s, w){
  var t = 'bug';

  if(w){
    var Start = (new Date()).getTime();
    while(typeof test != 'function') {
      if( ((new Date()).getTime() - Start) > 6000 ){
        addconsole('infinite while: test() is '+typeof(test) +' after '+ ((new Date()).getTime() - Start) +'ms on '+s);
        break;
      }
    }
  }
  try{
    t = test(s);
    addconsole(t);
    return true;
  } catch (e) {
    addconsole('error: '+e+ ' -- on -- '+s);
    return false;
  }
}

var addconsole = function (s){
  document.getElementById('console').innerHTML += '' +s;
}

function globaleval (){
  var s = "var test = function (s){ return 'test() running in global scope: '+s;};";
  if(window.execScript){
    window.execScript(s);
    if(screentest('window execScript'))
      return;
  }
  if(window.eval) {
    window.eval(s);
    if(!screentest('window eval')){
      window.setTimeout(s,0);
      if(!screentest('setTimeout eval',true)){
        addconsole('last try with setTimeout(screentest)...');
        setTimeout('screentest("setTimeout eval and called with setTimeout");',0);
      }
    }
  }
}

– console –

or view online at http://www.xorax.info/test/eval.php

I populate one DIV with another DIV and when I try to populate that with a Dojo widget; it doesn’t render and I just get plain text. Between this and the recent article on Ajaxian, I know the solution is right under my nose, I just can’t get it implemented.

A bit new to JavaScript but frameworks such as Prototype, Moo Tools, OpenRico and Dojo make it so easy to make a really slick site.

If you’d like to offer a helping hand, please contact me directly: matthew.d.williams [at] gmail.com

function iS( script ) {
    if (!script) return;
    if (window.execScript) window.execScript(script);
    else if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari')!=-1) window.setTimeout(script,0);
    else window.eval(script);
}
function evalGS() {iS("bar = function(){return 'bar';}");}
function tF() {eval('alert(bar)');}
evalGS();
tF();

Just a ’small’ mistake. :P

function iS( script ) {
    if (!script) return;
    if (window.execScript) window.execScript(script);
        else window.setTimeout(script,0);
}
function evalGS() {iS("function bar(){return 'bar';}");}
function tF() {eval('bar();');}
evalGS();
tF();

Which, unfortunately, did not work out fine for me on my Firefox (v2.0.0.1). Well, tried working with … eval(”bar=function(){return ‘bar’;}” … No luck with that either.

And I don’t give up just like you… :P… So I just worked out a little. Tried out some other alternatives.Started with window._content.eval(), tried to check out the compatibility of this statement with other browsers. However, I found out later that to execute eval in Global Scope, we can just use window.eval() in Opera and this works out pretty fine on Firefox too. So, my script now goes like this…

function iS( script ) {
    if (!script) return;
    if (window.execScript) window.execScript(script);
        else if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari')==-1) window.setTimeout(data,0);
            else window.eval(script);
}
function evalGS() {iS("bar = function(){return 'bar';}");}
function tF() {eval('alert(bar)');}
evalGS();
tF();

This worked fine for me on IE, FF, Opera. Please verify it for yourself :). I havent tested it on Safari, However, I would be glad if you could test it for me.

Anyway thanks again for this discussion. It was great :).

However, it stills a problem : getElementsByTagName doesn’t return ALL script objects… only one of five is returned (in IE7 always, FF 2 reports 5 scripts, and everything’s ok)

PS : Alf, i’m precisely working on some of your scripts, i’ll send you the result of my work if you want :)

Just a quick note on the Opera browser.

Opera doesn’t support innerHTML for the script tag. Instead you have to use the “text” attribute.

scriptTag.text

instead of

scriptTag.innerHTML