Rails spinoffs - Mar 2006 - document.write() in ajax response

Hi,

I am facing a problem and the description is as follows -

I have a page 1.html that does an Ajax.Updator & calls stuff from 2.html
(that has some html snippet & some javascript).

So far so good - things work fine.

However, if 2.html had any document.write code - eg
document.write(''hello'') then once the response is received it
will be rendered till the point document.write is encountered and after that it
will write to a new document instead of writing to the same one. I know this is
how document.write is supposed to work.

But, does anyone know about a workaround such that I don''t have to
change my document.writes in the legacy code and still get this to work with
Ajax?

Let me know.

Thanks,
Mandy.

On 3/22/06, Maninder, Singh
<mandiv-W2hqgAdRMsX2eFz/2MeuCQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> response is received it will be rendered till the point document.write is
encountered and after that it will write to a new document instead of writing to
the same one. I know this is how document.write is supposed to work.
>
> But, does anyone know about a workaround such that I don''t have to
change my document.writes in the legacy code and still get this to work with
Ajax?
Redefine document.write before the ajax call.

document.write = function(text) {
  alert(text); // or whatever
}

Bye,
  Martin

Martin -
 
This is my server response -
 
**cript>
page="from ajax";
document.write(''test'');
<**cript>
<div>
Test
</div>
 
I am not able to follow what you suggested.
 
Could you take this example and explain?
 
Thanks in advance,
Mandy.


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On 3/22/06, Maninder, Singh
<mandiv-W2hqgAdRMsX2eFz/2MeuCQ@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I am not able to follow what you suggested.
>
> Could you take this example and explain?
There is nothing special with document.write. It can be redeclared
like any normal property.

Just try this in normal page:

document.write("written"); // Gets written to screen
document.write = function(text){ alert(text) }
document.write("also written?"); // No, the text is shown in an alert.

So just do a
document.write = Prototype.emptyFunction;
if you want to send calls to document.write to /dev/null

Bye,
  Martin