Re: [Dynapi-Dev] [Bug #130357] small typo in list.js

[Doug M. <do...@cr...>]

Well I'll be...
I shoulda known 'perfectly valid coding technique' and
NS6 don't belong in the same sentance.


> Michael Pemberton wrote:
> >
> > please put the "typo" back.  What is does is set the value of
this.selected to
> > b and then evaluates the returned value (the new value of
this.selected).  It
> > is needed to change the selected state of the item.
> >
>
> > > if (this.selected=b) {
> > >
> > > should be
> > >
> > > if (this.selected==b) {
> > >
> > > right?
>
> I will answer both for NS6's sake:
>
> This is indeed a bug in NS6 and prevents normal execution of the rest of
the
> code. It should read:
>
> this.selected=b
> if(this.selected){
> ...
> }else{
> ...
> }
>
> I have done this kind of changes all around my local dynapi distribution
and
> those pesky errors that NS6 throwed at me and their side effect of code
not
> executing in that function anymore disappeared. Other special
perso-NS6-ality of
> this browser is that if you want to dynamically resize an image, you have
to do
> it TWICE, using a setTimeout to delay appropiately (30 millisecs are
enough) the
> effect. The code I use to test NS6 comes with this mail. It is spanish
code and
> HTML, poorly documented but that can be executed in IE4.0 and above with
no
> changes at all and some errors due to their different underlying model.
>
> Raides J.