Rails spinoffs - Nov 2007 - dom:loaded Event and Safari 2 (v1.6.0)

So, I''m working on a chat program centered around the role-playing
game Shadowrun Fourth Edition.  It''s primarily a thought experiment
and may never actually get used but probably about 80% of what I do
never actually sees the light of day, so that doesn''t really bother me
much.

The system works fine, in fact it works better than I expected, in FF,
IE, Opera, and Safari 3, but in Safari 2, it just does nothing.  It
doesn''t even fire alert() messages from within a linked javascript
file.

To try and figure out what was going on, I added a simple alert() call
within the document.observe("dom:loaded") anonymous function and it
never fired in Safari 2, but elsewhere (including Safari 3.0.3) it did
fire (and all subsequent code in the file worked) as expected.  I
searched around the group to see if I could get any help and didn''t
see anything.  Forgive me if a solution to this is available elsewhere
and feel free to respond with a link and RTFM ;)

Here''s the chat room javascript, which is all in a file chatroom.js
online: http://pastie.caboo.se/116960

If you want to see the actual system, visit http://shadownet.dashifen.com
and then create a game using the form on the right.  That''ll open the
chat room interface.

If anyone can give me a hint as to why the
document.observe("dom:loaded") anonymous function never executes in
Safari 2, I think I can probably take it from there.


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I hate to do this, but .... bump?  I''m still completely clueless.  As
far as I can tell, Prototype is loading fine, since I don''t get an
error when document.observe() is encountered, but then again,
alert("hello world") added to the chatroom.js file included in the
page never gets fired so maybe there''s a setting in Safari 2 that
cause it not to include javascript files?  JS is running in the
browser because adding JS to the page itself works fine ... it''s just
the JS in the linked files that aren''t happening.

Thanks.
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