[ILUG] [A little OT] the OpenIreland response to Minister Hanafin

[Nick Murtagh]

Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:
> With any client-side embedded scripting language, you're never going to
> be able to do "everything you want" convienently ...  but the notion
> that writing something in Javascript means you will inevitably have to
> do deal with cross-platform bugs is a fallacy.  It's fully possible to
> write portable, working, Javascript. It's simply a matter of knowing the
> standards and knowing what is portable.

I've done a lot of javascript coding and the amount of strange little
incompatibilities you have to work around is insane. Anything other than
a toy application will run in to at least one of these.

Even simple things like event handling are not portable:

     function setEvent(oObject, sEventName, sEventHandler)
     {
         var fFunction = new Function(sEventHandler);

         if (oObject.attachEvent)
         {
             oObject.attachEvent('on' + sEventName, fFunction);
         }
         else
         {
             oObject.addEventListener(sEventName, fFunction, false);
         }
     }


Nick