#4259 Javascript Errors in IE 7

[Stephan Unrau]

There are several JS (Javascript) errors that keep popping up in IE 7, latest version.

I have visited Slashdot since the 90's and have never seen such proliferation of JS errors. Yes I do use firefox and have firebug there so it doesn't interrupt my browsing on FF, but FF takes longer to load and i currently prefer IE.

I'm a software developer for Linux and Windows and none of my sites cause JS errors in IE or FF (Or Opera or Safari for that matter). My IE browser stops on all JS errors because I develop for IE primarily and accomodate FF later due to the forced popularity of IE.

Please fix these JS bugs as they are driving me up the wall. Generally I just avoid sites that are so poorly developed that JS errors come up frequently, and it attunes my brain to the fact that they are probably weakly structured, but this is SLASHDOT, I need my fix so please for the love of bits, fix it.

[Yen Chen]

IE Version 7.0.6001.18000

Errors on homepage:
Line: 1588
Error: Expected identifier, string or number
Line: 88
Error: Object expected
Line: 186
Error: Object expected
Line: 3632
Error: Object expected

Errors on http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/24/1814222:
Line: 1588
Error: Expected identifier, string or number
Line: 549
Error: 'YAHOO' is undefined
Line: 1
Error: 'Slash' is undefined
Line: 660
Error: 'D2' is null or not an object
Line: 787
Error: 'D2' is null or not an object

[Jason Johnson]

I've been getting the same error in IE 6 for about a month now.

As a developer, I have JS error dialogs enabled, and it's really annoying to have to click through several of these every time I visit Slashdot (which, as a developer, is usually several times per day! :P).

[Jason Johnson]

I get the same "Line 1588" error that chensium reported, and then after the page is almost loaded, I get:

Line: 315
Char: 1
Error: Object expected
Code: 0
URL: http://slashdot.org/

When I view the HTML source, line 315 starts with this code:

315 $(document).ready(function(){
316 if($.browser.safari) {
317 $('div.tag-display').css('display','list-item !important');
318 $('div.tag-display').css('display','inline-block !important');
319 $('div#articles div.tag-display.ready.dirty').css({'padding-top':'18px !important','margin-top':'-20px !important'});
320 $('div#articles div.related').css('display','inline');
321 }