Re: [Xsltforms-support] XSLTForms and IE8 issues

[Alain C. <ala...@ag...>]

Hi Sachin,

Thank you very much for sharing!

> 1). When the page is loaded, it loads config_en.xsl in Core 
> loadProperties. (for i18).
>
> So when the ajax call is made to load this resource, it should return 
> back the XML in the XMLHttpRequest.responseXML but it doesn't in IE.
>
> The work around was to load the responseXML from responseText as follows:
>
> if(Core.isIE) {
>
>   req.responseXML.loadXML(req.responseText);
>
> }
>
Your proposed workaround is interesting. I suspect that there might be a 
content type problem so IE doesn't see the response as XML. Did you 
already check this with a debugger?
>
> 2). All the triggers and submit controls are converted in to links and 
> their href="javascript:void(0)". In IE it was somehow changing the 
> state of the window, and was triggering *beforeunload* event.
>
> In other browsers it doesn't.
>
> So should xsltforms.xsl be changed to set the href="#"?
>
Good suggestion! I don't have my own opinion about it yet and I need 
some testing. I would also be happy to know the point of view of other 
XSLTForms users.
>
> 3). When we submit the form (PUT), the response is returned with 
> status code 204. In IE it is converted to 1223.
>
> So we had to handle this status code in XFSubmission.prototype.submit. 
> Otherwise submission-error was being thrown.
>
Yes! I just discovered that there are many web pages discussing about 
that strange IE behavior. I will integrate it in XSLTForms as soon as 
possible.

Regards,

-Alain