Does not function in Firefox

[tb000]

This simple example does not seem to work in Firefox 25.0.1 on OS X (it works in other browsers):

http://jsfiddle.net/mnH2X/

The issue seems to be a NotSupportedError on line 35 of bigtext.js.

Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious.

[zachleat]

No problem! In Chrome the test seems to report:
Refused to execute script from 'https://raw.github.com/zachleat/BigText/master/bigtext.js' because its MIME type ('text/plain') is not executable, and strict MIME type checking is enabled.

Switch the URL to use https://rawgithub.com/ instead?

[tb000]

Thanks for the response!

With that change, it continues to work in Chrome and Safari, but not in Firefox:

http://jsfiddle.net/MWFFA/

[dlosie]

I had this same problem today on a site I'm building. BigText was working in Chrome, but not Firefox or IE. I was getting the same NotSupportedError on line 35.

After troubleshooting, it is finally working now. It seems that by just moving the line linking to bigtext.js from the head to right before or after the closing body tag fixes the issue.

Hopefully that solves the problem for you as well.

[zachleat]

For sure you can use the DOMContentLoaded or onload events to fire it and it should work fine.

I’m still looking into how to fix this transparently in the script.

[paul-cla]

Just had the same issue, thanks for this

[CodingSamurai]

Just had the same issue as well. Kudos to dlosie for the fix!

[isellsoap]

@zachleat Looking forward to the fix, thanks!

Edit: Apparently wrapping getComputedStyle in ready() solves the issue (see Stack Overflow question and answer).

[zachleat]

Per BigText requirements, the script may only be run after DOMContentLoaded. I don’t think we’ll fix this transparently in the script. Thanks!

Please reopen if the current master version is causing you issues even after wrapping inside a $(document).ready