71639 - Defining a getter does not work

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 83433

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Erik Arvidsson]

I'm trying to define a getter on the prototype of HTMLElement but the getter is 
never (well sometimes, ~1/10 tries) added.

HTMLElement.prototype.__defineGetter__("all", function () {
   return "Wow it worked this time";
});

And then

alert(document.body.all)

gives undefined.

Using: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010310

Comment 1

[Erik Arvidsson]

Attachment: Adds a smile getter to HTMLElement.prototype

Comment 2

[Martin Honnen]

I made some tests with a user defined object and with the Date object and 
getters worked as expected. So it seems there is a problem with assigning 
getters to DOM objects.

Comment 3

[Mike Shaver (:shaver -- probably not reading bugmail closely)]

This is jst's bug.  We discussed this a few weeks ago, as I recall.

Comment 4

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

What's going wrong, in brief?  Maybe I could help hack a fix?

/be

Comment 5

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Setting to mozilla1.0 for now, I bet this will change (for better or worse) once
the DOM uses XPConnect.

Comment 6

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83433 ***

Comment 7

[Phil Schwartau]

Verified Duplicate -