Hi Antranig,

I've merged your changes into the project repo at 
https://github.com/fluid-project/infusion/commit/ca843c2cffac362c095ffdf00f8e6529336b9a6d
 

Do you know if jQuery and IE9 have been made aware, as you recommended?

Thanks
Justin

On 2011-05-31, at 2:02 AM, Antranig Basman wrote:

> On 30/05/2011 12:34, jobara wrote:
>> In the jquery 1.6.1 change log ( 
>> http://blog.jquery.com/2011/05/12/jquery-1-6-1-released/ ) they have a chart 
>> that shows the recommened uses of attr and prop. It seems like they suggest 
>> that you use attr for "id". Things seem to be working so it might be fine, 
>> but I suppose we should be careful about this.
>> 
>> Also it seems like not all of the uses of .attr("id") were switched to 
>> .prop.. not sure if this was intentional or if the were just missed. Here's 
>> the list of files where I found uses of attr ( Reorderer.js, 
>> InlineEditTests.js, Scheduler.js, SchedulerTests.js, 
>> TableOfContentsTests.js, FileQueueViewTests.js, SWFUploadManagerTests.js ). 
>> Also the same for getAttribute, ( portal.js, GeometricManagerTest.js )
>> 
>> I think we should have a proper unit test for  this in the framework unit 
>> tests..
>> 
>> I've tested this in IE6, IE7, IE8, safari and FF4 and it seems to have 
>> worked.
>> 
> 
> Thanks for this review, O KINGGG, and for catching these remaining uses in 
> your characteristically thorough manner. The remaining use in Reorderer.js 
> cannot safely be removed since this is a place where, for performance 
> reasons, we are doing raw DOM iteration and trying to REMOVE the "attribute" 
> for which there is not any particularly safe portable idiom (jQuery 
> themselves say that in this case they try to "set the attribute value to 
> undefined and catch any errors" which doesn't sound like something we want to 
> experiment with right now). I have added the core unit test you suggested.
> 
> We should make sure that both the jQuery and IE9 communities are made aware 
> of this issue - I would imagine that jQuery would change their recommendation 
> for attr("id") based on this report - although see comment below - they may 
> simply consider this issue as their bug.
> 
> Further experimentation showed that the call
> 
> element.getAttributeNS("", "id")
> 
> is also an acceptable replacement in this case for element.id on IE9 - if 
> jQuery considered the IE9 behaviour a bug and also insists that we should 
> continue with the use of element.attr("id"), perhaps this would be an 
> acceptable replacement implementation for them in their framework code for 
> jQuery.attr(). There may be portability issues on older browsers however.

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