On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:58:27 +0200, liorean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/9/26 Erik Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> I know that Opera on mobile phones used to return a string
>> representation that did not reflect the original.
>
> Yeah. Opera Mobile returned "[ECMAScript code]" or "[ecmascript
> code]". This was contrary to the ES3 spec (must be parsable as a
> function definition, IIRC) and also breaks the eval roundtripping by
> throwing a parse error.
> Anybody know if those issues have been fixed in more modern versions?
No, not consistently across "modern versions". It's not likely to be
properly "fixed" for a while yet. The reason is that on many platforms
where memory is scarce, not enabling JS decompilation helps reduce memory
requirements.
Unfortunately several major libraries (prototype in particular, jQuery to
a minor extent) have started (ab)using decompilation for various purposes.
Pages that rely on this tend to malfunction in Opera on low-memory
devices. Some Opera versions make at least some of these pages work again
by returning "function(){[ecmascript code]}" instead but that's of course
a silly hack..
(It would be great if ES-next could have a look at why these libraries
rely on toString - hacks and make it possible to do equivalent things with
nicer language constructs. One of the reasons toString is used is probably
outside the group's scope and caused by typeOf bugs in IE: prototype's
isFunction method uses toString in order to reliably detect whether
something is a function reference. Another usage is apparently - from my
memory - to look at the names of the named arguments and do something
magic if the first argument is $super. I'm not up-to-date on whether the
next iteration has an elegant solution for this apparent requirement.)
--
Hallvord R. M. Steen
Core QA JavaScript tester, Opera Software
http://www.opera.com/
Opera - simply the best Internet experience
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