Dashboard Cross-domain AJAX with jquery

Question

Hey everyone, I\'m working on a widget for Apple\'s Dashboard and I\'ve run into a problem while trying to get data from my server using jquery\'s ajax function. Here\'s my

Answer 1

Interesting that it works in Safari. As far as I know to do x-domain ajax requests you need to use the jsonp dataType.

http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/jQuery.getJSON

http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2005/12/05/remote-json-jsonp/

Basically you need to add callback=? to your query string and jquery will automatically replace it with the correct method eg:

$.getJSON("http://example.com/getData.php?act=data&callback=?",function(){ ... });

EDIT: put the callback=? bit at the end of the query string just to be safe.