Spell Guide Beta-0

[lch]

Zentar said:
The concept is great and I like that it does searches for specified spell requirements, but I get this message when using it on my MAC "Exception while loading: TypeError: Null value". I am part of the 75%.

That is because the code requires that the browser has support for the XSLTProcessor. KHTML, which is being used by Konqueror and Safari, does not. I think that support for MSIE can be added quite easily by adding the following code snippet from the XMLHttpRequest Wikipedia page: Code:

---

/**

 * Bridge XMLHTTP to XMLHttpRequest in pre-7.0 Internet Explorers

 */

if( typeof XMLHttpRequest == "undefined" ) XMLHttpRequest = function()

{

  try{ return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP.6.0") }catch(e){}

  try{ return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP.3.0") }catch(e){}

  try{ return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP") }catch(e){}

  try{ return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP") }catch(e){}

  throw new Error("This browser does not support XMLHttpRequest or XMLHTTP.")

};

---

I didn't get to test it, though.

Unless KHTML implements XSLTProcessor support, this page won't work for Konqueror and Safari. But in case Snoddasmannen wants to add support for them, I think that a cross-browser wrapper library named Sarissa takes care to add just this functionality for browsers.

[Snoddasmannen]

lch, does IE really have XSLTProcessor, or some ActiveX equivalent? If not it will take more than wrapping around XHR :/

Anyway, if I'm going to spend some time making this thing work for everybody then I think I might as well just move all the logic to the server side, with a simple form interface. Not many will be able to tell the difference, and even fewer care about it Plus I really dislike browser specific workarounds ... I'm happy that this code is running in both Opera and FF without any iffery.

But instead of working on the spell guide, I spent time rewriting my map generator instead. Now with fractals If it gets good, I'll release the source.

[lch]

Snoddasmannen said:
lch, does IE really have XSLTProcessor, or some ActiveX equivalent? If not it will take more than wrapping around XHR :/

I honestly have no idea about MSIE, I'm on Linux. Maybe the Microsoft FAQ can help you on that. Here's a code listing how to do the same transformation on both the Gecko engine and Internet Explorer: http://michael-steiner.net/JavaScript_XSLT.php

For perfect wrapping in any JavaScript browser, I guess you should use Sarissa like I wrote before.

Snoddasmannen said:
But instead of working on the spell guide, I spent time rewriting my map generator instead. Now with fractals If it gets good, I'll release the source.

Hurry up then!