link_to :remote => :true fails in IE

Question

I'm having a problem with remote links in IE, and I need to get it up & running soon cause the deadline is today :S The problem is that we're using AJAX to make a remote call to an action and eval the returned javascript.

When making the call using Firefox for example it's working fine, if I do it in IE, the response is made as HTML request.

IE entry in development log

Started GET "/semantic/country/5" for 127.0.0.1 at Wed Sep 07 12:06:00 +0200 2011 Processing by Semantic::SemanticController#country as HTML Parameters: {"id"=>"5"} Country Load (1.0ms) SELECT countries .* FROM countries WHERE countries . id = 5 LIMIT 1 Rendered semantic/semantic/country.js.erb (1.0ms) Completed 200 OK in 1785ms (Views: 54.0ms | ActiveRecord: 1.0ms)

Firefox call in development log

Started GET "/semantic/country/5" for 127.0.0.1 at Wed Sep 07 12:06:00 +0200 2011 Processing by Semantic::SemanticController#country as JS Parameters: {"id"=>"5"} Country Load (1.0ms) SELECT countries .* FROM countries WHERE countries . id = 5 LIMIT 1 Rendered semantic/semantic/country.js.erb (1.0ms) Completed 200 OK in 1785ms (Views: 54.0ms | ActiveRecord: 1.0ms)

The code used to generate the link is the following (in HAML):

link_to @vacancy.country.name, semantic_country_url(@vacancy.country.id), {:remote => true, :class => 'ajax'}

The problem seems to be how IE interprets the data-remote stuff in the HTML5. Is there a solution around this?

without switching to jquery , beause I cannot rewrite all the javascript in the application.

EDIT Found out that the IE browser sends the request twice now,first time a JS, which works fine, but second time as HTML.

Answer 1

don't run firebug AND IEdevtools at the same time...They both respond to the feedback messages and start acting weird in this case. Once I shut down Firebug IE worked fine.