Calendar month navigation with ajax: problem in Internet Explorer

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  • #9744
    Guillermo
    Participant

    Hi,
    I have purchased a single license of Events Calendar, it works perfectly but I have a problem with the calendar view and Internet Explorer.
    In the calendar header, I have two navigation links for next/previous month. This links are changing the URL and reloading the page in Internet Explorer 7 and 8. The rest of browsers are working fine, they reload only the calendar box while navigating across months.

    I just want the calendar to reload only its box, not the page. Is it possible?
    Do you know how can I fix this?
    I am using the default template code from the plugin.

    Live example:
    http://testing.idibay.com/mwmeventscalendar/?page_id=12

    Thanks,
    Guillermo

    #9749

    Hi Guillermo,

    I’ll double check with the team but I think older versions of IE couldn’t handle modern ajax calls properly so we had to make them page refresh rather than use ajax.

    To be clear – if you use the next / prev buttons in ie7/8 in cal view – does it take you to the next month or just reload the current month?

    #9757
    Guillermo
    Participant

    Hi Shane,
    clicking on next month link in IE 7/8 takes me to the next month, but reloading the page and the URL in the browser bar. You can try it n the live example I mentioned above.
    Thanks!

    #9762

    Ok then that is correct (sorry I don’t have IE 7 / 8 to try). Only modern browsers use ajax to reload the calendar content without reloading the page. Older browsers load the correct content but as a full page load (as you noted). If I am not understanding the issue, perhaps you could include a small screencast?

    #9798
    Guillermo
    Participant

    Hi Shane,
    so reading your response… can I understand that you are not going to support Ajax navigation in calendar for Internet Explorer 7 and 8? I think it’s a big mistake and can’t believe it.

    What “modern ajax calls” is the calendar using? I can see a lot of other calendars with Ajax navigation working fine in IE 6, IE 7 and IE8.

    I am really happy with Events Calendar plugin and hope it is a bug and can be fixed.

    I have recorded an screencast showing the error:
    http://vimeo.com/30677124

    #9808

    Hi Guillermo,

    I can understand your frustration. For the time being we have to draw a line at some point back into browser histories. It should work on IE8 and if it doesn’t we will fix it. We are not providing support for IE 7 & below. Event Google doesn’t support IE7 anymore (after all there are two newer versions of the platform and IE10 beta is due april).

    I’ve logged a bug for IE8 for the team to check.

    #9811

    From John: “That’s because IE8 and older browsers don’t support the javascript history api that
    allows you to rewrite the URL.”

    #10125
    Wesley E Childers
    Participant

    Any way to force the old style for all browsers instead of using the ajax view?

    #10139
    Rob
    Member

    Hi Wes. I can check with our developer John to see if he has any suggestions on how you could do that.

    #10353
    Rob
    Member

    Talked to the dev about your request, Wes, and he wasn’t quite sure what you meant; in IE8 and below the links just work exactly like normal links. In other browsers they do AJAX.

    To clarify for the previous post in this thread – the reason we don’t do AJAX in IE is because they don’t support replacing the URL in the title bar.

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