OK, I've tracked it down. I don't think it's caused by dynamic creation of elements. I think it's caused by a specific situation where neither the ancestor element nor any of *its* ancestors has a nextSibling.
Here's the patch: <http://pastie.caboo.se/117941>. This produces the intended results in IE; apply it and let me know if it works for you. If so, I'll commit it to trunk. Thanks! Andrew On Nov 14, 9:20 am, Nicholas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok I have nailed down when it happens but not really why. I am going > to provide 2 urls one running on 1.6 final and one running on 1.6 > rc1. Basically I think that a call to descendantOf call in IE7 > returns true when it should return false in the following > circumstances: > > If the parameter in descendantOf is created by javascript and appended > to the body. > > or > > If the parameter in descendantOf is created by javascript and > appended to a node that was created by javascript and attached to the > body > > or > > etc > > This is hard to explain so if you need further clarification please > ask. > > URLS: > > http://widgets.simpltry.com/descendant_of_test_case/final.htmlhttp://widgets.simpltry.com/descendant_of_test_case/rc1.html > > Hope this helps, > Nicholas > > On Nov 13, 3:48 pm, Andrew Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'll investigate this when I get a chance. In the meantime, can you > > work on that test case? > > > Thanks, > > Andrew Dupont > > > On Nov 13, 9:49 am, Nicholas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I was trying to update my widgets library from 1.6rc1 to 1.6 final and > > > I think there was a bug introduced in the descendantOf method in IE7 > > > (haven't tried 6), I don't have a reproduceable test case yet, but it > > > seems to be when you write a node with js, descendantOf always returns > > > true. Anybody else notice this? > > > > Thanks, > > > Nicholas --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" 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/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
