jQuery $.ajax Not Working in IE8 but it works on FireFox & Chrome

Question

I have the following ajax call which works perfectly in Firefox and Chrome but not IE:

function getAJAXdates( startDate, numberOfNights, opts ) {

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Answer 1

I also have encountered a somewhat similar problem with $.ajax() (jquery v1.4.2). It's not working in IE8, whereas in Firefox it's working.

However, I've noticed from the IE8 debug toolbar that my page is in quirks mode. So, I forcefully make it to work in standard mode by inserting this doctype . Suddenly the $.ajax() works!

I don't really understand about quirks/standard mode but the word "standard" somehow feels closer to Firefox or Chrome, rather than IE. So that's how I got the idea.

@see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirks_mode