title: Internet Explorer and JQuery/AJAX $.get() not working
body: <p>I am trying to get IE8 (and other IEs) to work with a page that uses the JQuery/AJAX $.get() method to display a value from an external php file.  Firefox, Chrome and Safari all work fine.  I've boiled my big problem down to this small example</p>
  
  <p>Here's the javascript code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>function get_number () {
      $.get(
          "test5.php",
          {},
          function (response) {
               var number = (response.number);
               $("#number_display").html(number);
          },
          "json"
      )
  }
  
  $(document).ready(function(){
      $('#get').click(function(){
         get_number ();
      });
  })
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and it inserts into the following html element:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;body style='text-align:center;'&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;Number = &lt;span id='number_display'&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;button id='get'&gt;Get Number&lt;/button&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <p>Here is the external php code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$num = rand (1,10);
  $result = array();
  $result['number'] = $num;
  echo json_encode($result);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My jquery library sourse is <a href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js" rel="nofollow">http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js</a>, if that matters.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks so much in advance for your help!</p>