you mean firebug library code?

That would help...

It took hours to figure this out, and if you think about it "top" is not an
unusual variable name.

Great tool by the way, the couple of hours was worth it!  Just wanting some
future poor soul from suffering!

Mitch

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:43 AM, John J Barton <[email protected]
> wrote:

>
> 'top' is not reserved in Javascript, but if you create a variable with
> the same name as a property of 'window', the property is hidden.   I
> guess library code should use "window.top" to reference window
> properties to avoid this issue.
>
> jjb
>
> On Dec 30, 8:46 pm, MitchV <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Okay!  I figured this out.
> >
> > I had a variable called top in my code.
> >
> > Here is the interesting thing by the way... if I stepped through the
> > code, the problem would not occur.
> >
> > Anyway fix was to change the variable name.
> >
> > Is top a reserved word?
> >
> > On Dec 26, 12:56 pm, John J Barton <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > In your app try something like
> > >   console.log( eval(x) );
> > > or
> > >   window.alert( eval(x) );
> >
> > > Maybe one of the libraries is trying to mess with 'eval'.
> >
> > > jjb
> >
> > > MitchV wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> >
> > > > I am a new Firebug user.  I have just loaded the latest version, and
> > > > am getting this error in the console, when I type anything in the
> > > > console (i.e. "12")
> >
> > > > This only happens on the page I am trying to debug...
> >
> > > > When I try it on other pages (this one for example)  all is fine.
> >
> > > > The page I am building includes use of "livepipe", "magicajax" and
> the
> > > > X library.    So I am guessing some interaction between these?
> >
> > > > Thanks in advance
> >
> > > > Mitch
> >
>

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