Like I said earlier, [edited by admin : MOVED from HERE ]
it looks more like either a joomla or IE issue cos a fresh install of joomla still won't let me save a new user in joomla's user manager while using IE8.

Firefox is fine.

With the component generated with cook I also cannot save a new item on the frontend in IE8.

But I can save an item in back end with IE8

I get the error on page as follows.

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.3; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Timestamp: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 15:24:49 UTC


Message: Expected identifier
Line: 521
Char: 13
Code: 0
URI: MySite/test/administrator/components/com_members/js/formvalidator.js


Message: Expected identifier
Line: 521
Char: 13
Code: 0
URI: MySite/test/administrator/components/com_members/js/formvalidator.js


Message: Object doesn't support this property or method
Line: 298
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: MySite/test/index.php/members/membersitem/showmember?cid[0]=45

Please try it out yourself in Internet explorer.

swanz . co . uk / test

login as

user = temp
password = password

I pretty sure its because mootols is loaded after ... validation.js

I see lots of issues with buttons not working with IE8 on joomla forum.

I followed one and after upgrading to joomla 1.7.1 I emptied my cache and restarted the browser.

It fixed the problem with joomlas buttons to add a user but I'm still having the same issue with my cook components save button

After searching through many forums it seems like This and This are describing the issue.

In facts
Validation is called after, but finish loading before Mootools.
So, because the calls seems to be asynchronous, MooTools is not ready when validation.js ask for it.

If somebody know how to load synchronously the JS file, it should solve this issue.


For Cook Builder, i had to merge the files to solve this.
It can also be nice to integrate this in Cook... With a compressor, too.


What do you think ?

OK now you're going way over my head.

I just hope I can resolve this cos it is a problem for me.

Maybe I'll just leave you mootools and java guru's look into it.

I will keep searching to see if I can help.

You can try to check is some last function from mootools loaded ...

I've been searching for a reason or a solution for my save button causing errors in IE8.

It seems there have been a few cases which have been resolved.

It seems that the errors were caused by defining objects with a trailing comma at the end of the last field.

e.g.
variable1: 'Some value',
variable2: 'Another value',

maybe caused when the last variable was removed.

Apparently IE has an issue parsing it and decides to stop executing scripts on the page altogether.

Any idea if this could be it and where I could look.

Anyone have any new information on this topic.

I'm still unable to save a form on my cook component using IE8.

Actually

Joomla 1.5.24 = Cannot save frontend or backend
Joomla 1.7.2 = Cannot save frontend but save works on backend

I have tried on several pc's and all have the same issue.

Surely I would think this is a huge drawback seeing as we cannot be sure which browsers people are using to view our websites.

If anyone has any advice I would be very greatful

It's a big problem.

In your hand, what are the javascript errors ?


We'll inform as soon as possible when we'll treat this.

In my case, using IE8 with my component built with cook the item layout displays with my form but I have the yellow triangle showing there are

Errors on this webpage might cause it to work incorrectly

The error details are as follows ;

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C)
Timestamp: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:25:45 UTC


Message: Expected identifier
Line: 521
Char: 13
Code: 0
URI: mywebsite/administrator/components/com_fishingcompetition/js/formvalidator.js

I can fill in the form ok and all the validation warnings seem to work, but, when I try to save I get the yellow triangle again.

This time The error details are as follows ;

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C)
Timestamp: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:28:06 UTC


Message: Expected identifier
Line: 521
Char: 13
Code: 0
URI: mywebsite/administrator/components/com_fishingcompetition/js/formvalidator.js


Message: Object doesn't support this property or method
Line: 174
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: mywebsite/index.php/entry-form

I really hope this can be resolved, because if visitors cannot use my pages with IE then this is (as you say) a big problem.

I can get around this issue in IE8 by commenting out the $submitAction line in

administrator/components/my_component/dom/html/toolbar/button.php

It now works great but I would just like to check if i will have any other issues by removing this line.

Hey Kevin,

I think I got it !

Please rebuild your component.


Solved since 1.4.3

Yes, just rebuilt and works great,,,thanks for that, it was a big drawback.

Was it anything to do with the line I was removing?