I am trying to figure out why my AJAX call to a Web service is working on every browser but the IPad. I have an MVC 3 application which makes a Web Service call using Ajax.Actionlink to a Sharepoint API. The call works great everywhere, but the experience seems to fall short on the IPad. on the IPad, I am getting results similar to if you implemented the Ajax.ActionLink without referencing the jquery and Microsoft js scripts. I have tried enabling the Developer tools on the IPad and no longer get an errors. (The only error i was receiving was i tried using the CDN library Microsoft uses and the IPad didn't like that at all.) Now those errors are gone and the call redirects the page to a Partial view. This should not be happening as every other browser (including Safari for windows) seems to display a loading gif and then load the information within the same page. No redirection. Any ideas?
Site Master:
<%@ Master Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewMasterPage" %>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head runat="server">
<title><asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="TitleContent" runat="server" /></title>
<link href="../../Content/Site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="<%: Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery-1.4.4.min.js") %>" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../../Scripts/jquery.validate.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../../Scripts/jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<%-- <script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/mvc/3.0/jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.js" type="text/javascript"/>
<script src="•http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/mvc/3.0/jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js" type="text/javascript" />
<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/mvc/3.0/MicrosoftMvcAjax.js" type="text/javascript"/>
<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/mvc/3.0/MicrosoftMvcAjax.debug.js" type="text/javascript"/>--%>
</head>
<body style="background-color:White">
<div class="page">
<div id="header">
<div id="title">
<h1>My MVC Application</h1>
</div>
<div id="menucontainer">
<ul id="menu">
<li><%: Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "Home")%></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div id="main">
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="MainContent" runat="server" />
<div id="footer">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Index: ( main page)
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<%:/* This calls the Ajax namespace to invoke an async call to a controller method
* we are using the POST method because the GET cache's the callback results
* Refernce:
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7282497/tinymce-in-mvc-3-razor-ajax-actionlinks-fail-after-first-ajax-call */
Ajax.ActionLink("Click to Get CIMS Folder", "CallWebService", new AjaxOptions()
{
UpdateTargetId = "placeHolder",
InsertionMode = InsertionMode.Replace,
LoadingElementId = "indicator",
HttpMethod="POST",
})
%>
<div id="indicator">
<img alt="AJAX Indicator" src="<%= Url.Content("~/images/ajax-loader.gif") %>" />
</div>
<div id="placeHolder">
</div>
PartialView (Makecall.ascx)
<%@ Control Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl<AsyncCallTest.Models.SharepointModel>" %>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td><font color="Black">Folder Name</font></td>
<td><font color="Black">Link</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<% if (Model != null)
{
for (int fileCounter = 0; fileCounter < Model.FolderList.Count(); fileCounter++ )
{
foreach (var file in Model.FolderList[fileCounter].FolderFiles)
{
%>
<td><font color="Black"> <%: file.FileName%></font></td>
<td><font color="Black"> <a href ='<%: file.FileWebPath%>'><%: file.FileWebPath%></a></font></td>
</tr>
<%
}
}
}
%>
</table>
