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Re: [yws-flickr] json feeds broken in IE?

Fixed.

Apologies - that was my bad. It's hard enough to keep track of which
languages support trailing commas in list structures never mind browsers too
... :-P


On 4/7/06 6:40 AM, "Tom Carden" <tom@...> wrote:

> I'm playing around with the JSON feeds. You know, for learning and
> stuff. Here's what I cobbled together so far:
> http://www.tom-carden.co.uk/scratchpad/flickr-rainbow/
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> I'm sure any javascript coders amongst you will all say "ick" at regular
> expressions to parse the photo img src, but this is a quick experiment
> to see what's possible, not production code. Anyway, it works for me...
> Well, it works in Firefox. No luck with debugging in IE, because the
> JSON doesn't parse.
>
> A quick googling shows that someone else had this issue too:
> http://ghill.customer.netspace.net.au/flickrfont/testjson.html
>
> Any chance of a fix?
>
> Best,
>
> Tom.
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I'm playing around with the JSON feeds. You know, for learning and stuff. Here's what I cobbled together so far: ...
Tom Carden
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Apr 7, 2006
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Fixed. Apologies - that was my bad. It's hard enough to keep track of which languages support trailing commas in list structures never mind browsers too ......
Aaron Straup Cope
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Apr 7, 2006
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Hi - thanks for having a look at this. I checked on my test page (mentioned by Tom below) and it seems that IE6 is still choking on the feed. Fortunatly, FF...
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Apr 19, 2006
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... Yes you are :) Some browsers including IE don't handle the trailing comma in Javascript arrays. This should be corrected. -- Gopalarathnam Venkatesan ...
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Apr 19, 2006
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The trailing comma problem is what Aaron fixed. I tested it in IE and had not problems, nor do I see any trailing commas in the feed url you provided. Is it...
Eric Costello
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Apr 19, 2006
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The commas don't show up when I access the url......
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Ooops *blush* [:">] Seems that ctrl-F5 fixed it up for me.Now those poor IE users can endure the aesthetic assault of FlickrFont ...
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Apr 19, 2006
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... Neat stuff. One question: why are you loading the medium sized photos for those apps? You should be using, for example, ...
Eric Costello
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Good point. The reason is because that is what Flickr returns by default and I (clearly) know very little about Flickr. Got any thoughts on how I could induce...
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Alrighty - gone with the JavaScript replace as an interim measure. The average photo size is now about 6KB. This frees up bandwidth for cheesy sound effects on...
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Yeah - that comes out to about ~1MB of images. Very bad....
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