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Re: Opacity Problem for IE8 and lower

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Mel Smith wrote:

> Ed said:
>>>        document.getElementById("iMyDivId").style.filter =
>>>alpha(opacity=100) ;
>>
>> = 'alpha(opacity=100)';
> 
> Hi Ed:
>         I hadn't ever seen the "alpha(" construct before and ouldn't find
> examples of its use in JS, and I had read thru Flanagan's book, and
> googled, but didn't realize I could stringify this filter argument.

You should either read Flanagan’s book again or (which I recommend) dump it 
as it cannot be that good a book on the subject if it did not tell you that 
there has to be an “alpha” function/method in order for that assignment to 
work "unquoted".  (As most certainly there is not, a ReferenceError 
exception is thrown.¹)

That the book is bad has been demonstrated before; however, you have 
demonstrated before to be a slow learner as well.  So the reason for this 
oversight is unclear.
 

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¹  An interesting aspect of this problem is that if there were an “alpha”
   function/method and there was an “opacity” variable/property or the
   code not strict mode code, an “opacity” property would be assigned the
   value 100, alpha(100) would be called, and the result of the call
   assigned to the “filter” property (which may reject it by setter).
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Opacity Problem for IE8 and lower "Mel Smith" <syntel@cox.net> - 2014-05-29 17:17 -0600
  Re: Opacity Problem for IE8 and lower Ed Jay <edMbj@aes-intl.com> - 2014-05-29 16:56 -0700
    Re: Opacity Problem for IE8 and lower "Mel Smith" <syntel@cox.net> - 2014-05-30 07:50 -0600
      Re: Opacity Problem for IE8 and lower Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-30 17:27 +0200
        Re: Opacity Problem for IE8 and lower Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-05-30 17:56 +0200
        Re: Opacity Problem for IE8 and lower "Mel Smith" <syntel@cox.net> - 2014-05-30 10:27 -0600
          Re: Opacity Problem for IE8 and lower Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-30 22:37 +0200
          filter (was: Opacity Problem for IE8 and lower) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-01 14:59 +0200
  Re: Opacity Problem for IE8 and lower Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-30 14:32 +0200
  Re: Opacity Problem for IE8 and lower Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2014-06-01 13:27 -0300

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