Assigning document.writeln to object

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  • Christopher Benson-Manica
    #1

    Assigning document.writeln to object

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
    <html>
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
    <title>test</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    try{
    var foo=document.wr iteln;
    foo( 'Hello, world!' );
    }
    catch( e ) {
    alert( e );
    }
    </script>
    </body></html>

    IE has no problem with this, but Firefox throws an exception -
    "Illegal operation on WrappedNative prototype object". Is it within
    its rights to do so?

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    Christopher Benson-Manica | I *should* know what I'm talking about - if I
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    • Martin Honnen
      #2
      Re: Assigning document.writel n to object



      Christopher Benson-Manica wrote:

      [color=blue]
      > var foo=document.wr iteln;
      > foo( 'Hello, world!' );[/color]
      [color=blue]
      > IE has no problem with this, but Firefox throws an exception -
      > "Illegal operation on WrappedNative prototype object". Is it within
      > its rights to do so?[/color]

      Depends on the legal system of the country you are using Firefox in :).
      Seriously, writeln is a native method of the document object which if
      assigned to a global variable is no longer bound to the document object
      but the window object and calling writeln on the window doesn't make
      much sense.
      Why do you need that? Or what do you want to achieve, perhaps there are
      other ways to do that.

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        • Christopher Benson-Manica
          #3
          Re: Assigning document.writel n to object

          Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yaho o.de> spoke thus:
          [color=blue]
          > Depends on the legal system of the country you are using Firefox in :).
          > Seriously, writeln is a native method of the document object which if
          > assigned to a global variable is no longer bound to the document object
          > but the window object and calling writeln on the window doesn't make
          > much sense.[/color]

          Oh! Well, that explains it...
          [color=blue]
          > Why do you need that? Or what do you want to achieve, perhaps there are
          > other ways to do that.[/color]

          I don't, really - someone had suggested doing that in a previous post
          here, but the difference was that it was at function scope and so this
          issue wasn't relevant.

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          Christopher Benson-Manica | I *should* know what I'm talking about - if I
          ataru(at)cybers pace.org | don't, I need to know. Flames welcome.

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