Safari pauses all animation on redirect / form submission

Question

I have an animation that triggers when a link is clicked. It is a jQuery animation that enlarges a div then fades out. To ensure speed, at the exact same time that the link is c

Answer 1

Safari complains that it can't find the variable someData, it is trying to set the value of the input to the value of a variable that does not exist and stops executing that portion of the page's JavaScript.

[Error] ReferenceError: Can't find variable: someData

Just create the variable like this:

// [snip]
var input = $("");
var someData;
input.val(someData);
// [snip]

and it will work in Safari.