Maximum call stack size exceeded error

Question

I am using a Direct Web Remoting (DWR) JavaScript library file and am getting an error only in Safari (desktop and iPad)

It says

Maximum call

Answer 1

We recently added a field to an admin site we are working on - contact_type... easy right? Well, if you call the select "type" and try to send that through a jquery ajax call it fails with this error buried deep in jquery.js Don't do this:

$.ajax({
    dataType: "json",
    type: "POST",
    url: "/some_function.php",
    data: { contact_uid:contact_uid, type:type }
});

The problem is that type:type - I believe it is us naming the argument "type" - having a value variable named type isn't the problem. We changed this to:

$.ajax({
    dataType: "json",
    type: "POST",
    url: "/some_function.php",
    data: { contact_uid:contact_uid, contact_type:type }
});

And rewrote some_function.php accordingly - problem solved.