Re: [jQuery] [Fwd: jquery bug 164] (explanation)

2006-11-04 Thread Dave Methvin
I think IE is trying to _call_ elem.getAttribute for some reason, must be a bug in the COM typelib for the XML control. To answer my own thought, I remembered it's a problem with the way many external COM controls work because they're not native Javascript objects. This post explains the

Re: [jQuery] [Fwd: jquery bug 164] (explanation)

2006-11-04 Thread Klaus Hartl
Dave Methvin schrieb: I think IE is trying to _call_ elem.getAttribute for some reason, must be a bug in the COM typelib for the XML control. To answer my own thought, I remembered it's a problem with the way many external COM controls work because they're not native Javascript objects.

Re: [jQuery] [Fwd: jquery bug 164] (explanation)

2006-11-04 Thread Michael Geary
To answer my own thought, I remembered it's a problem with the way many external COM controls work because they're not native Javascript objects. This post explains the situation a bit: http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2004/09/20/231852.aspx Although IE cooperates with

Re: [jQuery] [Fwd: jquery bug 164] (explanation)

2006-11-04 Thread Dave Methvin
Although IE cooperates with Javascript, it seems like MSXML does not. As a result, Javascript ends up trying to call the method rather than just seeing if it exists. Hmm... That's not what Eric's blog post says: ... But IE creates a shim object just for this purpose - so you can save a