JavaScript Quiz works in IE, FF, Chrome but not Safari

[subQuark]

lol, in my book plumbers are experts and make a nice living!

You have been generous with your time and I appreciate it. This function is very close to working and I believe the "parse" is causing an issue because it is an actual JavaScript method so perhaps the JS engine is Safari is upset that it is being declared as a variable in this function.

Plus, the actual debugging error in Safari says "Can't find variable: parse"

So I tried changing the name (to "parced" and "place" but it still says it can't find that variable.

I then declared it as a variable, var parsed; (undefined), but same result.

[Padonak]

try this one (no coockie engaged):

[subQuark]

You are a master Plumber! That worked wonderfully on Safari as well as on the iPad! Fantastic!

You made my week! As geeky as this may sound, I am going to spend the rest of the afternoon studying what you have done and hopefully start my JavaScript apprenticeship in the shadow of such a great plumber (yes, I am actually this corny in real life!).

And no cookie is used? That's a lot for me to learn!

Thank you Padonak!

. . . and as for your English, it's pretty darn good, better than many of my co-workers (I am french canadian but went to English schools).

I'd love to buy you a beer! subquark at gmail

[subQuark]

lol on the "burn in hell!" =D

[Padonak]

lol )) i can explain every line to you there's no need to waste time on it )) so wait for the explanations <wink>

p.s. i do not drink at all ))))))))))

[subQuark]

That would be great! And what a neat JavaScript trick you did for the images! =)

I gave up drinking two years ago, the only thing I miss is the ritual of having a vodka martini on a Friday evening but it's all good! And I sleep much better too!

Thanks again, and if you do write up an explanation, I'd love it.

If you have a blog, I think you'd get traffic over this one - we do eLearning and have left Flash behind. We needed some form of low level assessment and can't count on having any server-side scripting available, so this simple quiz was okay for us. Separating the answers into a separate JS file was good enough because if our users figured that out, they should do well on the quizzes! =)

I searched for a good week on something like this - JS, XML, AJAX, JQuery, anything at all and most solutions were poor. Plus it has to be HTML5 for us and work on almost anything.

Your code allows for that and I think many other corporate eLearning departments are in the same boat.

Not able to use SQL or a scripting language really limits this for us (on my own time I do a bit in MySQL, Apache, PHP for http://simonastick.com ).

Thanks again Padonak, you are truly appreciated.

[Padonak]

check mail ))

by the way, i think it is possible to build the first array (correct answers) so that it will not be easily seen in the code to confuse cheaters

[subQuark]

A secret way to build the array? Now you have aroused my curiosity! This could be handy if it doesn't confuse me as how to assign those right answers!

wow, I just searched JavaScript obfuscation and holy cow! Lots of tools out there! I will exoplore some and see what I find, thanks!

[subQuark]

I think I may just do the following which will be a little confusing but not hard.

Our target audience is pretty good about not cheating and this quizzing does not impact their job and is offered as a self-guidance tool.

Making two arrays of odd and even answers and concatenating them will work for us (latin terms for odd and even used):

var impar = new Array('a','c','b','b','b');
var etiam = new Array('a','a','b','d','a');
var answers = impar.concat(etiam);