Richtext fails with coldfusion.ajax.submitForm in IE

Question

Hi all,
got a cfform containing a cftextarea with richtext = true, invoking the FCKeditor.  The form is inside a cflayoutarea and to maintain the page view I'm doing the calling forumAddPost to do the submission using coldfusion.ajax.submitform, processing it through a CFC method....shown below.
The CFC simply writes to the database and once returned, the handler navigates the layoutarea to the mainpage.
function forumAddPost() {
ColdFusion.Ajax.submitForm('formnewpost', 'groups.cfc?method=forumNewPosts', forumAddPostHandler, errorHandler);
function forumAddPostHandler(result) {
ColdFusion.navigate('forum_showtopics_search.cfm?subject_id=<cfoutput>#group.forumid#</cf output>&searchtext=', 'MOD2');
function errorHandler(code, msg)
alert('error '+code+': '+msg);
This code works fine in Chrome or Firefox, but in IE it fails and closes IE down.  If I remove the richtext option the posting works fine, so I've established it's something to do with the FCKeditor and the ajax posting method, but can't work out what?!
Anyone have any ideas?
Cheers
Phil

Answer 1

I was testing on IE8, Windows7 Starter.  I don't have IE6 available to test on.  Can test on IE7 a bit later on, but I have to fart-arse around with a VM to get it ready, so I'll do that after work.
I tested multiple submits both via clicking between the tabs within one main "request" as well as multiple entire requests (like via refreshing the whole browser window).  I had no problems.
I think you're being quite optimistic ot expect AJAX stuff to work reliably on IE6.  IE6 crashes.  That's what it's most famous for doing.  One needs to expect crashes if one pushes it (push it anywhere than out the window, that is).  And your client company's IT dept should be lined up against a wall and shot for still running it.  That's professionally negligent IMO.  But... you probably don't need to be told that.
Adam