You gotta love IE's "interpretation" of coding errors... i hate stuff like
that.

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Peyton Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> Red-faced, I am now compelled to report that my mistake with
> getElementById was that the elements reporting this error had no ID, but
> only a NAME. Duh!
>
> Internet Explorer evidently decided to be more forgiving on this point -
> at least that's my excuse for not noticing it...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Ross
> Sent: Feb 18, 2008 10:41 AM
> To: discussion@acfug.org
> Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Another Question From Rip Van Winkle
>
> never had any issues using getElementById (yes casing was wrong)...
>
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Peyton Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Steven, did mean Firefox supports *parentNode* instead of
> > getElementById? My Firefox always complains of an error whenever it sees
> > getElementById.
> >
> > Or is there perhaps a different spelling for Firefox? (not likely,
> > right?) The last letter in getElementById is lower case, not upper case as
> > you have it. But of course you meant to type it as lower case, right?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steven Ross
> > Sent: Feb 18, 2008 10:16 AM
> > To: discussion@acfug.org
> > Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Another Question From Rip Van Winkle
> >
> > I have been using YUI (yahoo) library, it works well and has some nice
> > built in cross browser functionality.
> > firefox supports getElementByID and the childNodes property... they
> > performa a little differently than in IE.
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Peyton Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > First, I believe I already have Firebug: when Firefox tells me I have
> > > an error (lower righthand corner) I can click on that and see lots of info
> > > about it; and which I click on the '^' in that panel, it morphs into a
> > > window with 'Firebug' in its title. But I don't see how that helps me with
> > > navigation in the actual code I'm writing. Or do you mean navigation as in
> > > exploring the document while I'm debugging?
> > >
> > > Second, Doug, which of those frameworks would you recommend? In its
> > > documentation, Adobe refers to Spry from time to time...
> > >
> > > I still have my question about how to re-write my particular functions
> > > (or properties to be precise) Firefox-style. Thanks for the info that
> > > parentNode = parentElement, but what about the other two?
> > >
> > > Incidentally, to most of you write web pages full of code like 'if IE
> > > to this, if NS do that'? I hope there's a way to escape from that! I've 
> > > had
> > > a free ride on this so far since all my websites belonged to an INTRAnet
> > > inside a NYC goverment agency which  standardized on IE...
> > >
> > > Or is that what a framework would encapsulate? And if I use that,
> > > would I be able to read my own code?
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Douglas Knudsen
> > > Sent: Feb 18, 2008 9:55 AM
> > > To: discussion@acfug.org
> > > Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Another Question From Rip Van Winkle
> > >
> > > I suggest looking at using a framework.  This would be a Good Thing as
> > > it would encapsulate these issues for you.  Frameworks for JS include 
> > > Spry,
> > > Dojo, JQuery, and the list could go on and on.
> > >
> > > DK
> > >
> > > On Feb 18, 2008 9:44 AM, Steven Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > First go get firebug for firefox... that will help you with the dom
> > > > navigation.
> > > > Firefox parentElement = parentNode
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Peyton Todd <
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello again from the CF5 programmer trying to catch up.
> > > > >
> > > > > I always used to write for Internet Explorer, and did so again
> > > > > after my return to programming a few months ago, resulting in what is 
> > > > > by now
> > > > > a rather complex site. Many CF (and other internet-based) programmers 
> > > > > have
> > > > > told me since then that I should have written for Firefox, and I now 
> > > > > wish I
> > > > > had, because of it's debugging abilities. But...
> > > > >
> > > > > How easy will it be to convert my existing code to run on Firefox?
> > > > > Specifically, there are three functions I'm making heavy use of:
> > > > >
> > > > > 1. getElementById
> > > > > 2. parentElement
> > > > > 3. children[]
> > > > >
> > > > > According to my latest DOM book (O'Reilly, published 1998 - yes, I
> > > > > know I need a new one) none of these exists in Netscape (same as 
> > > > > Firefox,
> > > > > right?). And sure enough I get error messages at least with the first 
> > > > > one (I
> > > > > never get past there to the others). So my question is:
> > > > >
> > > > > What is the Firefox way to do each of them? (According to my
> > > > > O'Reilly book, document.all[] doesn't exist in Netscape, either.)
> > > > >
> > > > > One catch is: I would very much like to avoid giving unique names
> > > > > to everything, for two reasons:
> > > > >
> > > > > 1. There are lots and lots of them. This is a roll-my-own
> > > > > HIERARCHICAL grid of sorts with buttons to insert and delete new rows 
> > > > > on
> > > > > both of two levels.
> > > > >
> > > > > 2. All my update code makes heavy use of the fact that, when items
> > > > > in a form have the same name (as they do in each successive row in my 
> > > > > grid),
> > > > > CF sends up the values as a comma-delimited list of values which I 
> > > > > then loop
> > > > > through.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any ideas?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for your help,
> > > > > Peyton
> > > > >
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