Re: [widgets] Implementing the Storage Event for widget preferences

On 13 Jul 2011, at 16:41, Marcos Caceres wrote:

> On 7/13/11 5:08 PM, Scott Wilson wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> In my attempt to get our conformance level from 97% to 100%, I've been
>> trying to implement the Storage Event requirement for widget.preferences
>> in the Widget API spec [1]. I'm using the following JS code injected
>> into the widget page to raise the event:
>> 
>> [89] var evt = document.createEvent('StorageEvent');
>> [90]
>> evt.initStorageEvent('storage',false,false,key,old_value,new_value,window.location,widget.preferences);
>> [91] window.dispatchEvent(evt);
>> 
>> However, in Safari I get "Test did not run or storage event was never
>> fired."
>> 
>> In Firefox 3.6, I get "Test setItem-fires-event failed by throwing the
>> following exception: [Exception... "Operation is not supported" code:
>> "9" nsresult: "0x80530009 (NS_ERROR_DOM_NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR)" location:
>> "http://localhost:8080/wookie/shared/js/wookie-wrapper.js Line: 89"]"
>> 
>> In Opera 11.50, I get "Test setItem-fires-event failed by throwing the
>> following exception: Error: WRONG_ARGUMENTS_ERR"
>> 
>> Any pointers?
> 
> What is widget.preferences implementing?

Well, it "implements" the Widget preferences spec - but I guess in typeof terms its an Object.

Received on Wednesday, 13 July 2011 17:46:44 UTC