Hi Godmar,
Thanks. Yes. I tried that, but the support for window.onload does not exist
in IE6. I also tried the defer="defer" attribute in the script tag, which
did not work either. Tim's solution looks good. I have yet to try it
though. ( will wait until after Easter).
Cheers,
David
On 20/03/2008, Godmar Back <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Have you tried placing your code in an window.onload handler? Read
> the example I created at libx.org/gbs and if that works for you in
> IE6, use the technique there. (Or you may just use the entire script -
> it seems you're reimplementing a lot of it anyway.)
>
>
> - Godmar
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:09 AM, KREYCHE, MICHAEL <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > Tim and David,
> >
> > Thanks for sharing you solutions; the IE problem has been driving me
> > crazy. I've mostly been working on the title browse page of our
> catalog.
> >
> >
> > Originally I had it working on Firefox, Safari, and IE7 (IE6 worked if
> I
> > refreshed the page); after some rearrangement of the script, it's now
> > working on IE6 but broken on Safari.
> >
> > This is still proof of concept code and is only on our staging server
> > (http://kentlink.kent.edu:2082/). Try a keyword search and you should
> > see some Google links.
> >
> > Mike
> > --
> > Michael Kreyche
> > Systems Librarian / Associate Professor
> > Libraries and Media Services
> > Kent State University
> > 330-672-1918
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > > Behalf Of Tim Hodson
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:21 AM
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Google Book Search API - JavaScript Query
> > >
> > > One way I have used to resolve this is to poll the object
> > > until it exisits before continuing.
> > >
> > > function myInit(id){
> > > 13 // if Obj is not defined yet, call this function again until it
> is.
> > > 14
> > > 15 if (typeof myObj == "undefined"){
> > > 16 createScript();
> > > 17 setTimeout("myInit()", 60);
> > > 18 return;
> > > 19 }
> > > 20 // do stuff onlu if myObj is now an object
> > > 21 else if (typeof myObj == "object"){
> > > 22
> > > 23 myGo();
> > > 24 return;
> > > 25 }
> > >
> > > HTH Tim
> > > 26}
> > >
> > > On 20/03/2008, David Kane <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > > HI Folks,
> > > >
> > > > We were one of the first libraries to get the GBS API
> > > working on our OPAC.
> > > > Like many OPACs, ours is difficult to modify at times and
> > > requires a
> > > > dynamic insert of a generated (by PHP) JavaScript, which
> > > is hosted on
> > > > a separate server to the OPAC pages.
> > > >
> > > > It seems to work fine on most browsers, giving an
> > > appropriate link to
> > > > a full/partial text preview of that work on GBS. I run into a
> > > > problem with IE6, which means that the function defined in the
> > > > JavaScript aren't available by the time the script is
> > > called at the bottom of the page.
> > > >
> > > > You should be able to see a GBS link on most pages, here
> > > is an example:
> > > >
> > > > http://witcat.wit.ie/search/i?SEARCH=0192833987
> > > >
> > > > The attached image shows you what you should see.
> > > >
> > > > If anyone can shed any light on this, it would be appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks and best regards,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > David Kane
> > > > Systems Librarian
> > > > Waterford Institute of Technology
> > > > Ireland
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tim Hodson
> > > www.informationtakesover.co.uk
> > > www.timhodson.co.uk
> > >
> >
>
