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Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day - Volume #1 - #Tip 14-C

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Denis McMahon wrote:

> On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:17:19 -0800, David Mark wrote:
>> David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day - Volume #1 - #Tip 14-C
> 
> […]
> We have a faq server,

It is spelled _FAQ_, and the server is frequently down, unfortunately.
Also, I do not think that the FAQ covers this subject.

I value David's pointing out that the Webkit bug with dynamically created 
`button' elements can be worked around with setAttribute(), as I had 
problems with that when creating widgets (for a quick solution I had opted 
to use `input[type="button"]' elements instead of `button' elements, but the 
latter are more flexible).

Also, it is important to realize that the value of an attribute as retrieved 
with getAttribute() can be misleading.  For a practical example, there is 
(was?) a jQuery UI component which attempted to provide a fallback for 
HTML5's type="date".  But it used jQuery's attr() method for detection.  
Since the attr() method always uses the getAttribute() method in Gecko-based 
browsers, the plugin was unable to detect that Firefox did not support the 
attribute's `date' value (the attribute property yielded "text" which would 
have shown that), and that applying the fallback was indicated.  As a 
result, the corresponding `input' element stopped working in Firefox (text-
based date input impossible, as all keyboard events had been canceled by the 
plugin) until that jQuery plugin had been eliminated from the project's code 
base.

> we have Thomas 'pointed ears' Lahn,

_PointedEars_, please.
-- 
Prototype.js was written by people who don't know javascript for people
who don't know javascript. People who don't know javascript are not
the best source of advice on designing systems that use javascript.
  -- Richard Cornford, cljs, <f806at$ail$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>

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David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day - Volume #1 - #Tip 14-C David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2011-11-08 04:17 -0800
  Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day - Volume #1 - #Tip 14-C Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2011-11-08 17:41 +0000
    Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day - Volume #1 - #Tip 14-C David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2011-11-08 10:35 -0800
    Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day - Volume #1 - #Tip 14-C Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-09 06:56 +1100
    Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day - Volume #1 - #Tip 14-C Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-11-08 21:34 +0100
    Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day - Volume #1 - #Tip 14-C Erwin Moller <Since_humans_read_this_I_am_spammed_too_much@spamyourself.com> - 2011-11-09 12:16 +0100
    Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day - Volume #1 - #Tip 14-C Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2011-11-09 05:51 -0800
      Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day - Volume #1 - #Tip 14-C Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-10 07:09 +1100
        Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day - Volume #1 - #Tip 14-C Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2011-11-10 18:45 -0800
      Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day - Volume #1 - #Tip 14-C David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2011-11-10 06:43 -0800
  Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day - Volume #1 - #Tip 14-C SteveYoungTbird <stephen.young@chello.at> - 2011-11-08 19:17 +0100
    Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day - Volume #1 - #Tip 14-C David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2011-11-08 10:34 -0800
  Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day - Volume #1 - #Tip 14-C "S.T." <anon@anon.com> - 2011-11-08 17:13 -0800
    Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day - Volume #1 - #Tip 14-C Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-09 12:21 +1100
  Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day - Volume #1 - #Tip 14-C RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2011-11-08 20:13 -0800
    Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day - Volume #1 - #Tip 14-C Matt McDonald <matt@fortybelow.ca> - 2011-11-09 09:29 -0700
      Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day - Volume #1 - #Tip 14-C RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2011-11-09 15:36 -0800
    Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day - Volume #1 - #Tip 14-C David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2011-11-10 06:52 -0800
  Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day - Volume #1 - #Tip 14-C Tim Down <timdown@gmail.com> - 2011-11-09 14:41 -0800
    Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip of the Day - Volume #1 - #Tip 14-C David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2011-11-10 06:44 -0800

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