So IE isn't reporting the next sibling right? I don't completely
understand, but it does indeed fix the problem I was seeing.

Thank you very much for such a quick patch.
Nicholas

On Nov 14, 12:34 pm, Andrew Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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://...
>
> > 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


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