>> From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On >> Behalf Of Johan Douma >> Sent: 08 January 2009 11:22 >> To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org >> Subject: Re: [WSG] Chrome and Safari render the same...or do they? >> >> Just though I'd let you know about this, I actually think this is a pretty >> serious problem, because it breaks a lot of scripts and doesn't conform with >> the other browsers even though it conforms to the javascript spec. >> >> V8 (chrome's js engine) can take the values in an array in a random order. >> >> If we have my_array = new Array("val1","val2","val3","val4", etc... ); >> And we loop thru that array with for-in the values might come out as val4, >> val1, val3 >> >> The js spec actually says that it can loop thru an array in any order, but >> it actualy should be fixed to conform with other browsers. >> (https://mail.google.com/mail/?zx=zux2r51mnf08&shva=1#label/assoc/11eb4c430f775f2c)
And this, my friends, is why web developers like me always insist that specs should be more specific instead of being so flexible. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************