This script is fairly simple. It works great in firefox, doesn't seem to work in IE. My document.getElementById('theTime').value gets set in firefox, but not in IE. Anyone have any ideas?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<title>XmlHttpRequest</title>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
var url = "echotime.php?param=";
var http = getHTTPObject();
function startAjax()
{
getTime();
setInterval('getTime();', 5000);
}
function handleHttpResponse()
{
if (http.readyState == 4)
{
if (http.status == 200)
{
document.getElementById('theTime')
}
else
{
alert("There was a problem retrieving the XML data:\n" + http.statusText);
}
}
}
function getTime()
{
http.onreadystatechange = handleHttpResponse;
http.open("GET", url, true);
http.send(null);
}
function getHTTPObject()
{
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
{
try
{
xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
}
catch (e)
{
xmlhttp = false;
}
}
else if (window.ActiveXObject)
{
try
{
xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
}
catch (e)
{
window.alert("ms.xmlhttp");
try
{
xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
catch (E)
{
xmlhttp = false;
}
}
}
return xmlhttp;
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="startAjax();">
<form action="post" ID="theForm">
<label for="time">time</label>
<input type="text" name="test" id="theTime" width="200px" size="200px" value="crap"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
