Well, in the catch it's looking for a tbody or tr, so I'm guessing that trying to insertAdjacentHTML to a tbody or tr fails in IE and Opera. Maybe it's only certain versions.
Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:rails-spinoffs- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Michaux > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 8:54 AM > To: rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org > Subject: [Rails-spinoffs] Abstract insertion question > > Hi, > > In the following block of Prototype.js when will the catch() block > run? I cannot create conditions in Opera where it will run. > > Thanks, > Peter > > if (this.element.insertAdjacentHTML) { > /* IE and Opera */ > try { > this.element.insertAdjacentHTML(this.adjacency, this.content); > } catch (e) { > // when will this run? can feature detection be used instead? > var tagName = this.element.tagName.toLowerCase(); > if (tagName === 'tbody' || tagName === 'tr') { > this.insertContent(this.contentFromAnonymousTable()); > } else { > throw e; > } > } > } > _______________________________________________ > Rails-spinoffs mailing list > Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs _______________________________________________ Rails-spinoffs mailing list Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs
