right... because all variables in the outer scope are automatically part of the "window" object! Well thanks any way!
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:14 PM, John J Barton <[email protected] > wrote: > > I take it back. No matter what library code does, it can't prevent you > from overwriting window.top. Once you do that, bad things will > happen. > jjb > > On Dec 31, 8:51 am, "Mitch VanDuyn" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
