Comments on: Y!Q Challenge Update : Bronze Medal!

By: Stefan

Stefan — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 02:28:00 +0000

Thanks for your explanation, Kevin. I’m a bit surprised that IE and Firefox actually do allow JavaScripts to interchange data cross-site; I thought they would be more strict. Anyway I am quite convinced that with the ongoing increase of all these AJAXian scripts the browser vendors will (have to) tighten the security-belts in this area. Whether this is a Good Thing or not—we’ll see …

By: Kevin Hale

Kevin Hale — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:42:00 +0000

Stefan, here’s how I understand the problem with it not working in Safari: Yahoo’s dhtml pop-up is using javascript to pull search results from their domain. Because this is a going to another domain to pull information, Safari’s javascript handler won’t allow because that’s a security no-no. Firefox and IE seem to have no problems going across domains to pull information from Yahoo. Anyway, that’s why the dhtml pop-up works on yahoo’s news page but not on ours.

On Particletree, we’re using a modified version of their javascript because if you were to take their Y!Q script directly, it would actually send you to a yahoo search results page rather than pop something up.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:34:00 +0000

Did I already tell you that it doesn’t work with Safari? ;-)

By: Alex Giron

Alex Giron — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:06:00 +0000

By far the best implementation was on this site. The minute I saw it I knew it would be up there… I tried with one of my sites http://www.dealsarchive.com but was way too lazy to customize the script.

Anyways great job!

Cheers!