Notification Plug-in only working in IE (not Firefox or Chrome)

Question

Just in case anyone else encountered this ...
I downloaded and installed the Dynamic Action Plug-in, Notification,
from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/apex/application-express/apex-plug-ins-182042.html.
I imported into Shared Objects plug-ins for an application, created a dynamic action using this plug-in,
and it works great. In IE only (IE 8). When I run the application from Chrome or Firefox (3.6.13),
the notification does not display.
When I run the demo notification application in firefox or chrome, the notification works - http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=654321:401:0
I can not find any information specifically on browsers.
I use APEX 4.0.1.00.03 in Oracle 11.1.0.7 and develop on Windows 2003 server.
I do use javascript (calling htmldb_Get) to get a value from the database to display in the Notification,
so I suspect the problem may be there.
Any ideas why only IE works would be appreciated. Is there any place in APEX I needed to specify browsers?
Thanks,
Wayne

Answer 1

I stripped out all the local database access and hardecode a value for this problem. When you click the button "Check Employee's Classification", it calls a javascript function in the HTML Header called checkClass. That changes the item displayed in the notification and fires the dynamic action, Employee Class. Works great in IE, but that's it. I suspect it's the javascript that firefox or Chrome doesn't recognize.
function checkClass(lnum)
//alert(lnum);
// force a "change" for dynamic action to fire - set to empty, then change
$x('P1_CLASS_DESC').style.visibility = 'visible';
$x('P1_CLASS_DESC').focus();
$x('P1_CLASS_DESC').value = "";
$x('P1_CLASS_DESC').blur();
$x('P1_CLASS_DESC').style.visibility = 'hidden';
// below won't work on apex.oracle.com - comment out
// var get = new htmldb_Get(null,&APP_ID.,'APPLICATION_PROCESS=checkClass',0);
// get.add('P1_LNBR',lnum);
// gReturn = get.get();
//alert(gReturn);
$x('P1_CLASS_DESC').style.visibility = 'visible';
$x('P1_CLASS_DESC').focus();
// origin - not for apex.oracle.com $x('P1_CLASS_DESC').value = gReturn;
$x('P1_CLASS_DESC').value = "Test for why this only works in IE";
$x('P1_CLASS_DESC').blur();
$x('P1_CLASS_DESC').style.visibility = 'hidden';
}