270488 - Calling properties that return a boolean via DOM does not work in Win 98 in FF

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Vlad Alexander]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Build 20041107 Firefox/1.0 in Windows 98

On Windows 98, plug-in properties that return a boolean value do not work when
called via DOM. For example:

alert(typeof(document.getElementById('editor1').EscapeUnicode))

... returns undefined intead of true or false.

It is possible to reproduce this most of the time but on sometimes, these
properies will work.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
The following page is available for testing using the XStandard plug-in.

http://xstandard.com/misc/firefox/windows98/

1. Call a property that returns a boolean. For example:
alert(typeof(document.getElementById('editor1').EscapeUnicode))

Actual Results:  
return value is undefined

Expected Results:  
return value should be true or false

Comment 1

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

I crashed following the link using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041113

TB2019425M

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Doesn't crash in a Debug build from the same day when loading or clicking the
links. clicking the links on the page give the following assertion:

###!!! ASSERTION: Don't call me!: 'Error', file
c:/work/mozilla_source/trunk/mozilla/dom/src/base/nsDOMClassInfo.cpp, line 2899

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

the talkback report you mentioned isn't in db anymore.

Comment 4

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

The reported page has gone.
-> WFM


FYI:
See bug 287008 or bug 287007 for comment 2's ASSERTION.