Hi Saifi, I think many are either unaware of such debuggers or they assume that their scripts just work!
With Firefox its okay not to have Venkman, you can use the Error Console in the Tools menu to check for errors. -- Satish Vellanki ----- Original Message ---- From: Saifi Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 1:37:32 AM Subject: Re: [twincling] Problem with Javascript on Mozilla On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, mohammed jahangir wrote: > Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:10:31 -0000 > From: mohammed jahangir <md_jahangir27@ yahoo.co. in> > Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ps.com> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ps.com> > Subject: [twincling] Problem with Javascript on Mozilla > > Hi, > > I am a newbie to Javascripting and i have written a script for opening > a new window whenever the value of a popup-menu is changed , and should > eventually close the old window. > > The script works fine with Internet Explorer but not with "Mozilla". > > Following is the piece of code that i have written : > function makepage(element) > { > var host = element.options[ element.selected Index].text; > newwin = window.open( 'test10.cgi? hp=' + host); > oldwin = newwin.opener. close(); > } > > Can anyone help me with this ? > > Regards, > Jahangir. > Hi: As a programmer, please use a debugger to try and understand the state and behaviour of your program during execution. All JavaScript programmers working with Firefox/Mozilla should install 'VENKMAN'. Yes, Venkman is a javascript debugger (firefox extension). Please download and install from here http://www.mozilla. org/projects/ venkman/ There might also be differences between IE JScript and standard JavaScript used in Firefox/Mozilla. Please refer to the canonical standard at http://developer. mozilla.org/ en/docs/JavaScri pt You also need to decide which version of JavaScript are you using 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 ? One of the strange things I have noticed is that scripting folks do not use debuggers ! why ? Scripting is important today and debugger's are even more so ! thanks Saifi.
