I've been working with Rails 3 beta 4 for a while on the Mac,
then I switched to my PC laptop to test the site out. In IE (6,7,
and 8), all the Ajax forms stopped working (it got me freak out a
bit). After debugging the code for a while, it turned out that the
even with the :remote => true option, IE just does not support
event bubbling for the submit event. The comment in rails.js
(around line 93) is
// TODO: I don't think submit bubbles in IE
$(document.body).observe("submit", function(event) {...
With :remote => true doesn't work in IE, this is a huge issue
and I don't think Rails can be shipped without this feature fully
working.
My thinking is that specifically for the "forms_for :remote
=> true", the onSubmit event of the form need to explicitly call
the handleRemote() method in the rails.js file so that the event
can be captured, processed, and stopped appropriately. It's not a
very "unobtrusive" solution, but I don't see away to work around
this issue. My knowledge of Rails internal stuff is not that great
yet, but I will take a look into the actionpack code to see if I
can find a work around.
Is there anyone who's also looking into this issue?
Alex Le
Rohit Arondekar