Ajax form submission in IE(8)

[Rain Lover]

• Sample Google form
• Related spreadsheet

I customized the original form source code and created two forms:

• First form
• Second form

They work in all browsers except IE(8). What's wrong?

[Ingolme]

What happens when you try it in Internet Explorer 8?I was under the impression that jQuery takes care of cross-browser problems. Perhaps you have use an uppercase or lowercase letter in the URL you're requesting where it shouldn't go. Edit: Oh, wait a moment. You can't use AJAX for cross-domain requests. Perhaps newer browsers support it in some form, but older ones don't.

[Rain Lover]

You can't use AJAX for cross-domain requests. Perhaps newer browsers support it in some form, but older ones don't.

You're right! But I don't know why it works in IE8 as well if I add dataType: 'script' to my code. Edited October 20, 2012 by Rain Lover

[Ingolme]

Have you looked up what the dataType property does? I have a feeling that it creates <script> tags, which can actually be cross-domain. It only works, though, if the file you're trying to call is a Javascript file.