Re: SVG 1.1 Does no text exist in the DOM? or why no eggs? from Boris Zbarsky on 2010-10-03 (www-svg@w3.org from October 2010)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 20:40:41 -0400
To: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
CC: www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <4CA7D109.5060806@mit.edu>

On 10/2/10 5:44 PM, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
> in this testcase onmouseover, "ham'n" gets displayed, but no 'eggs'

Ignoring for the moment that 2e is not a valid variable name, 
2e.firstChild is null, so 2e.firstChild.nodeValue would throw an 
exception.

And all the browsers you mention have debugging consoles that would have 
told you the exact exception that was thrown, had you looked...

-Boris

Received on Sunday, 3 October 2010 00:41:15 UTC