[OT] Browser compatability

[Paul King]

Hello

Some time ago, I was playing around with Ajax/JavaScript and CSS and while I 
got both to work in Firefox and Opera browsers, I find that Internet Exlplorer, 
Safari and Chrome all choke on the Javascript.

All browsers display the CSS all right, but the JavaScript doesn't work in the 
dropdown menus for IE, Safari, and Chrome.

Strange part is, the Ajax/JavaScript for all browsers seems to work on the link 
at the bottom of the page that says "How this page was put together". And it 
indeed work for every browser I tried.

The part that IE chokes on are dropdowns such as:

<form action="POST">
	<select>
	<option value = "">Select a country</option>
    <option  value = "Australia" 
      onclick = "getData('intfoods/australia.txt', 'jack')">Australia
    </option>
    </select>
</form>

The part that works for everybody is a link that I put together with some 
guesswork:

<a onClick="getData('tech_detail.txt', 'jack')" class="jill"><font
color="blue">How this page was put together</font></a>

As you can see, both tags call the same function, and send existing files as 
parameters. Both work as expected under Firefox and Opera. However, under the 
other browsers, they seem to choke on the form code. Can anyone shed light on 
this?

The website is at http://testing.alimentarus.net/index.html

Thanks.

Paul King

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