95629 - setTimeout or setInterval throw an exception

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Ka-Hing Cheung]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801
BuildID:    2001080104

When I use setTimeout in my script, the script terminates. error show up in the
javascript console. If I try to evaluate "setTimeout(50)"(number doesn't
matter), the following shows up:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMJSWindow.setTimeout]"  nsresult:
"0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: <unknown filename> ::
<TOP_LEVEL> :: line 0"  data: no]
//end


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.creat a new script in a html page
2.call setTimeout with a timeout time
3.do someother thing with javascript

Actual Results:  an exception is thrown and the script terminates

Expected Results:  execute the code after setTimeout

Comment 1

[Phil Schwartau]

--> DOM Level 0

[e-mail]: could you attach a reduced HTML testcase to this bug?
(via the "Create a new attachment" link above). 

Thanks; that will speed things along -

Comment 2

[Ka-Hing Cheung]

Attachment: A test demonstration about how setTimeout fails

Comment 3

[Ka-Hing Cheung]

sorry, this is not a bug really, I found out that this to be really a syntax error.
Sorry again...