[Dynapi-Dev] RE: netscape-bugs

[<ma...@ab...>]

found the same "function does not always return a value"-bug
in DynLayer.prototype.captureMouseEvents()

solved it by quickly by adding
a "return true" at the end of the function

/matin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: martin ström [mailto:ma...@ab...]
> Sent: den 21 november 2000 15:46
> To: dyn...@li...
> Subject: netscape-bugs
>
>
> i found that early netscape-versions (4.05 and below, both
> win32 & mac) handles an empty array as false.
> example:
>
> testArray=[]
> if (testArray) alert(1)
> else alert(2)
>
> normally this code should alert(1) but those
> browsers alerts 2 which generates errors for
> example in the include() method:
>
> if (DynAPI.packages[pckg]) group=DynAPI.packages[pckg].libs[groupname]
>
> then the group-var is not beeing set and no files are included.
>
> the DynAPI.removeFromArray() generates an error-message
> "function does not always return a value"
>
> which i solved temporarly by changing the line
> if (id) { delete array[which.id]; return }
>
> to
>
> if (id) { delete array[which.id]; return null}
>
> maybe not correctly but then i at least can make
> some dynlayers on my testpage.
>
> i dont know if we should care about browsers this old
> but thought you guys should know..
> (i think complete ns6-support is more important)
>
> /martin