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Web Bug Track - Keep watch on those pesky browser bugs
Discovered the Web Bug Track today while researching a Trac bug. Collecting browser bugs AND workarounds.
Got to love this idea - a useful resource, and I've added their feed just to keep in touch with what people discover. Spending my days in OSX, I'm also less aware of the frequent IE bugs discovered that seem to outnumber other browsers by a factor of 10.
How such a common function as document.createElement() can still be broken is beyond me... Not only broken, but so horribly implemented that it actually accepts an element-representation as input - here is the workaround in action:
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trac/htdocs/js/query.js
130 130 131 131 // Convenience function for creating an <input type="radio"> 132 132 function createRadio(name, value, id) { 133 var input = document.createElement("input"); 133 if (!$.browser.msie) { 134 var input = document.createElement("input"); 135 } else { 136 var input = document.createElement('<input name="'+name+'"/>'); 137 } 134 138 input.type = "radio"; 135 139 if (name) input.name = name; 136 140 if (value) input.value = value;
We'll see how this bug report ends up being solved in the end, as that is not nice code to smear around the code base.
Anyone got other useful 'browser bug' resources that I should keep watch on? Add a comment.