Closed Bug 435894 Opened 17 years ago Closed 10 years ago

dragevents.html example code doesn't work: error message not allowed to read XPCComponents.classes

Categories

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: Mozilla Platform, defect)

Product:
Developer Documentation Graveyard
Component:
Mozilla Platform
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: no-reply-address-of-florian, Unassigned)

References

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Details

(Whiteboard: c=Platform u=mozdev p=0)

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051202 Firefox/3.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051202 Firefox/3.0 The example: http://developer.mozilla.org/samples/dragdrop/dragevents.html from: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Drag_and_drop_events doesn't work. an error "not allowed to read property Components.classes" (translated from german) appear at line 6: var dragService = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/widget/dragservice;1"]. getService(nsIDragService); Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Well, https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Drag_and_Drop does say that this API is for chrome (extensions) only, but https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Drag_and_drop_events , which links to the example, indeed doesn't mention that and is generally messed up.
Component: General → Documentation Requests
Product: Firefox → Mozilla Developer Center
QA Contact: general → doc-request
Summary: Example code doesn't work: error message not allowed to read XPCComponents.classes → dragevents.html example code doesn't work: error message not allowed to read XPCComponents.classes
Component: Documentation Requests → Documentation
Component: Documentation → General
Product: Mozilla Developer Network → Developer Documentation
Whiteboard: u=mozdev p=0
Component: General → Mozilla Platform
Whiteboard: u=mozdev p=0 → c=Platform u=mozdev p=0
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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