2008/3/12, David Huynh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Askild Aaberg Olsen wrote: > > David Huynh wrote: > > > >> Leon, > >> > >> I'm getting a new Windows box in a week and I'll try to get IE8 on > that. > >> I can't risk losing IE7 on my current Windows box. > >> > >> In the meantime, if you spot any error log in IE8 when using Exhibit, > >> let me know. Thanks. > >> > >> David > >> > >> > > Hi David, and thank you for the great products from the Simile-team! > > > > You can test-drive IE8 with Virtual PC and the one of the images from > > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en > > > > This way you are able to test for both IE6 and IE8. > > > > Ah, thanks for the tip! That's very helpful. > > And there's good news: it seems that IE8 returns an empty string (where > IE7 returns null) when Exhibit calls getAttribute on an element with a > non-existent attribute. So, what we need to fix is the > Exhibit.getAttribute function. For now, you can add this Javascript code > after including exhibit-api.js. > > <script> > Exhibit.getAttribute = function(elmt, name, splitOn) { > try { > var value = elmt.getAttribute(name); > if (value == null || value.length == 0) { // previously: > if (value == null) { > value = elmt.getAttribute("ex:" + name); > } > if (splitOn == null) { > return value; > } > var values = value.split(splitOn); > for (var i = 0; value = values[i]; i++) { > values[i] = value.trim(); > } > return values; > } catch(e) { > return null; > } > }; > </script> > > This code makes this exhibit > http://people.csail.mit.edu/dfhuynh/misc/nobelists/nobelists.html > work on IE8 for me. > > Please give that exhibit a try on your IE8. Thanks! > > > David > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > > > David, All is working fine now in my IE8
Thanks for this fix, Leon
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