@masterleep: I think there are still some IE8 issues. Now that a final is out, they'll probably get resolved soon. I know kangax (at least) is working on some of them and several have already been resolved in the trunk version. Would you give the trunk version a go?
@RobG: > Then that is a bug in IE 8. It _may_ be. Half the point of readAttribute it that it "...cleans up the horrible mess Internet Explorer makes when handling attributes"[1] and consequently it does a *lot* of processing around the getAttribute call, including (in trunk) several IE8-specific branches. Always possible that that code isn't handling something right. Equally, it's entirely possible that there's a (new) bug in IE8. :-) I don't currently have a machine I can load IE8 on to find out whether the fault is in IE8's getAttribute or Prototype's readAttribute. [1] http://prototypejs.org/api/element/readAttribute -- T.J. Crowder tj / crowder software / com Independent Software Engineer, consulting services available On Mar 21, 11:29 am, RobG <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 20, 6:18 am, masterleep <[email protected]> wrote: > > > OK, I found this particular one... if you call > > input_elem.readAttribute('value'); > > on an input element, and the value is equal to the empty string, then > > in IE8 the result is null. > > Then that is a bug in IE 8. readAttribute uses getAttribute, which > returns a string in browsers that are compliant with the W3C DOM Core > spec: > > <URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#ID-666EE0F9> > > > On other browsers, the result is the empty > > string. > > Which is compliant with the spec. > > An alternative is to use the DOM property for HTML attributes (i.e. > inputElement.value) - what does that return (I don't have access to IE > 8 at the moment)? > > -- > Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" 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/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
