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[Edward Potter]

> What would you do?

Well a quick fix is to replace the Scriptaculus Autocompleter with a
jquery version.

http://plugins.jquery.com/search/node/autocomplete+type%3Aproject_project

Then worry about the upgrade down the road.

:-)  ed



On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:56 AM, David Mintz <david at davidmintz.org> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I got two CentOS 5 LAMP production servers and a Zend Framework app. The
> CentOS boxes have PHP 5.1.6 and CentOS evidently has no intention of
> offering an upgrade. There are third-party RPMs available but as a novice
> sysadmin I am uneasy about going there lest I break stuff.
>
> Why upgrade? There's a strange and subtle bug in IE6's, also Safari's
> behavior with an Ajax call involving Scriptaculous' Autocompleter. What's
> the server side got to do with it? I don't know, except that I cannot for
> the life of me reproduce the bug when I run the selfsame code on PHP 5.2.x I
> am out of hypotheses.
>
> I am dissatisfied with CentOS' conservatism -- I guess it's not for me --
> but installing another distro based on a hunch that it might help seems like
> overkill, doesn't it?
>
> What would you do?
>
> PS, the code that acts weird only on 5.1.6 is substantially this:
> http://davidmintz.org/eg/autocompleter.php (source:
> http://davidmintz.org/eg/autocompleter.php/source). If you see anything
> wrong with it, do share.
>
> In deepest gratitude,
>
>     David
>
> --
> David Mintz
> http://davidmintz.org/
>
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> The tributary streams flow through the darkness
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