Fixing Internet Explorer & AJAX

A few weeks ago, as developers are wont to do, I rewrote our online gameroom. Version 1 was getting crusty, and I'd written all the AJAX handlers manually and wanted to clean up the code by using Prototype and Script.aculo.us. You may recall we discussed using these tools to build a Web 2.0 interface to iControl. So I rewrote it and was pretty pleased with myself. Until one of our players asked why it wasn't working in Internet Explorer (IE). Now Version 1 hadn't worked in IE either, but because I have a captive set of users I ignored the...