271388 - window.prompt failure in bookmarklet script

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Matthew Rasnake]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/0.9.1+

I have been using a self-made bookmarklet for Dictionary.com for several years
now, and with the latest update to the nightly/latest-trunk (11/22/2004) this
bookmarklet has broken:

original code:
javascript:function dict()
{if(document.getSelection){selText=document.getSelection();}else{selText=document.selection.createRange().text;}
if(!selText){selText=prompt('Enter word to look up at
Dictionary.com:','');}if(selText){selText='search?q=' + escape(selText);
mgl=window.open('http://www.dictionary.com/' +
selText,'MGL','width=800,height=600,top=0,left=0,resizable,scrollbars');
to=setTimeout('mgl.focus()', 100);}} dict();

with this code, i was given an error in the JavaScript console that said that
document.getSelection was deprecated in favor of window.getSelection. in the
process of attempting to rewrite this code, i've discovered that window.prompt
apparently is broken.

here's the revised code (still in progress, as window.prompt is broken):

javascript:function dict() {var selText = '';if (window.getSelection){selText =
window.getSelection();} else if (document.getSelection){selText =
document.getSelection();} else if (document.selection){selText =
document.selection.createRange().text;} if ((selText=='')||(selText<'')) {
selText = window.prompt('Enter word to look up at
Dictionary.com:');alert('selText='+selText+'A');}if
(selText>''){selText='search?q=' +
escape(selText);mgl=window.open('http://www.dictionary.com/' +
selText,'MGL','width=800,height=600,top=0,left=0,resizable,scrollbars');to=setTimeout('mgl.focus()',
100);}}dict();

it will correctly ask for input (show the prompt) if no text is selected, but
then the alert (debug code to show value of selText) doesn't fire, and no pop-up
window is created. as everything works up to and including the prompt, i must
assume that the prompt functionality (setting the variable to the user's input)
must be broken in some way.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. install provided code as a bookmarklet (plug the code into the location of a
bookmark)
2. click it.
3. enter a search term
4. click ok

Actual Results:  
nothing.

Expected Results:  
text that was input should have been alerted, and new window should have opened
with Dictionary.com search for the input text

as i said, i was using the original code (listed above) for years, and used it
as recently as *last night*, but now it is broken with the 11/22/2004
nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 1

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

I wonder if this is the same as bug 272455.

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Matthew, please retest with current trunk build.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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