# Getting incompatabilities with IE but not Firefox; thoughts?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-incompatabilities-with-ie-but-not-firefox-thoughts/114813>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 17, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-incompatabilities-with-ie-but-not-firefox-thoughts/114813 "2007-09-17T19:28:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matt)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-incompatabilities-with-ie-but-not-firefox-thoughts/114813/1 "2007-09-17T19:28:32Z")

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I’ve got the following code in a view:

\<%= link\_to\_remote(“Activities by Request”,  
:update =\> “chartDisplay”,  
:url =\> {:action =\> :show\_spinner}, :complete  
=\> remote\_function(:update =\> “chartDisplay”, :url =\>  
{:action =\> :activities\_by\_request, :name =\>  
@project.name}) ) %\>

This renders to:

Activities by  
Request

In Firefox, this functions just the way I need it to. It executes my  
show\_spinner action and then calls the activities\_by\_request action and  
does what I need it to do. However in IE I only see the first action  
fired (and it doesn’t completely work and all that happens in that  
action is a render\_text).

More info that might help out…

Any thoughts or suggestions? I’ve done basic prototype AJAX calls  
before while not using Rails, so I don’t understand why they’re not  
functioning here.