I agree that documentation of these pitfalls, specifically with relation to jQuery, would be very useful (in addition to sites like http://webbugtrack.blogspot.com) and I also realize that attempting to fix this IE6 bug in jQuery would be a waste of time.
In my defence, I'm not usually the type who doesn't RTFM or try a Google search first. This bug seems obscure to me -- obscure enough to escape even a thorough search. I wasn't a web-dev when IE6 was prominent and neither were many new web-devs, I'm sure other people have and will hit their head against this. The good news is that a Google search for "jQuery ie6 input name bug" (without quotes) links to this discussion on the first page :) On Nov 3, 3:56 pm, William Chang <diehardb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think jQuery Docs should warn about well known bugs (that will never > be feasible to fix because of bad browsers like IE6). > > There will always be newcomers and all are not equally knowledgeable > about "how to use search". > > Sincerely, > William Changhttp://www.williamchang.orghttp://www.babybluebox.com > > On Oct 30, 9:50 pm, Dave Methvin <dave.meth...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > The alerts in following code do not show the same result in > > > IE6 due to a bug[1] (also discussed on stackoverflow.com[2]). > > > That's a well-known bug for those of us who lived through the dark > > time when IE6 was the most popular browser in the world (for some > > definition of popular). > > > > Should jQuery normalize or at least warn the user about this > > > discrepancy (like it does when attempting to change the 'type' > > > attribute on <input/> elements)? > > > At this point it doesn't seem worth the extra convoluted code to > > normalize, since the bug is already documented in a lot of places and > > easy for users to work around. Is there a place that makes sense to > > mention this in the jQuery docs? If the docs had mentioned it, would > > you have found the mention and avoided the bug? Or would it simply > > have been one of the first results for your Google of "jQuery ie6 > > input name bug"? :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en.
