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Go to the IE8 crash page

In IE8, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, a new and convenient method has been introduced by the name ‘querySelectorAll’ By using this method you can find DOM elements based on  CSS class names. Useful? Oh yeah, this could be very useful. But there seems to be an serious problem. Please take a look.

Browser crash
We found an possible problem by using some Javascript. It is possible to crash the browser by using querySelectorAll. We can do this with three lines of Javascript code.

We call the document.querySelectorAll. As result we get a so called static Node List. I have no idea what a static Node List is, but I guess it is a kind of object.
Or is it an array? For instance this static Node List has a length property. So it is some native thing. Half Array , half Object.

Now we try to do a little loop through the elements of this node list. That is all. The browser crashes instantly. Or to be more correct: the tab pane crashes. The browser doesn’t actually crash. This seems a serious error. I don’t know how serious. Is it only an annoying feature ore something more serious?

Example code

// Get the static Node List
var questions = document.querySelectorAll ( ".W4);

// Let's crash IE8
for (var el in questions)
	break;

We have an working example file. Please note that your IE8 browser could crash when you visit this example page. So be careful please.
Go to the IE8 crash page

We tested this issue on three different machines, all Windows XP and IE8.  Please test this on your machine and let us know what you find. This code doesn’t do any harm as far as we know, it only crashes the browser.

James Hopkins of http://idreamincode.co.uk/ has confirmed this bug and has filed it on the Microsoft feedback pages  right here.

Be sure to run IE8 on Windows XP. That is the fatal combination. IE8 on Windows Vista won’t crash.

Sizzle seems to be pretty fast, I read the test bestween mootoolsand Sizzle on http://mootools.net/mootools_vs_sizzle/ and for me the results  are almost equal.

My own little domnodes file looks tiny compared to Sizzle though, so I am not sure what to do, Embrace Sizzle or look for Mootools to extract their CSS selector code.
First try Sizzle , that is what I am going to do.

I have to say I did not do much tweaking on the javascript code. I did mainly some HTML and CSS code change and I have changeed some little Javascript effects. That is all.

This is my first attempt in jQuery to acualy build some application. I have been reading for more than a yaer in the source code  and  jQuery looks pretty clean and straight forward, so I am plesantly supprised. The documentation is also very good. My compliments to John Resig and all the others.

I used also a round corners plugin. In this case I have been using the jQuery corner plug in from methvin.com
(http://methvin.com/jquery/jq-corner.html). This plug in does the job and adds some extra DIV elements to create well formed curves.

Well, anyway this is the demo [http://www.domnodes.org/portal.php]

I use FireBug everyday, I cant miss it anymore. I am so glad I don’t have to use the bulky Visual Interdev Javascript debugger anymore.

The good news is this version doesn’t have the little annoying bug anymore I’ve wrote about.
I just want to say thank you to all of the developers from FireBug who did this great job.

please visit: getfirebug.com to download this great tool

I am using a DIV tag and the CSS declaration is quite simple:

DIV  {
  position:relative;
  width:100%;
  text-align:left;
  overflow:auto;
  cursor:default;
}

Now I start Firebug, and load the page in Firefox. I try to inspect the page by clicking on the Inspect tab. The inspect tab looses focus immediately. This is the bug. I sould behave normaly and draw a thin line around the chosen DOM element.

You can see this behavior on my test page over here:

www.domnodes.org/test.html (this is the page with the error)

I am using:
Firefox 3 RC 3 and Firefox 3
Firebug 1.2.0b3 Windows XP

The problem is one line of CSS
overflow:auto;

Removing this line fixes the problem. See the second test file: this is exactly the same page oly without the CSS line I mentioned :

www.domnodes.org/test2.html (this is the page without the error)

I think this is weird FireBug behavior. I hope this report is somehow useful for you.

You have to check this out in Firefox 3 and Firebug 1.2. In older configurations there are no problems and you can not see the bug. My next post will be a post about the same subject and with a browser crash. So it get worse. Sorry for that.

First of all there was Nate Koechley. He is a front end engineer from Yahoo! and he is working on YUI.  Everything he told I knew already, but he did a very good and convincing gig. He had one little new item: Steve Souders, the founder of YSLOW has moved to Google. That is number two in a relative short frame of time. Dustin Diaz went to google too.
I wonder how many developers will leave Yahoo! when, and if, Microsoft will take over.

John Resig talked about the major javascript libraries. We know tehm all, dont we? Prototype, YUI, Jquery and Dojo. which one is the best? I don’t know. They are all quite good I guess. But I don’t use them. I am doing it the hard way. Why? Because I like it. :Do it you self”

Peter Paul  Koch told his story about event handlers and event delegation. Event delegation is hot at the moment. There is only one problem: some events won’t bubble up (or propagate).
Iwrote some code to do some delegation myself, and called it: javascript style sheet. I will have to digg in again and I hope to publish some of it this summer. (Stay tuned)

In the company I work for I keep on saying “Please use Firebug“, and most of my co-workers answer something like “Euh huh, use what?”

Nate Koechley asked the audience of Kings of Code “Who uses Firebug” and everyone raised his (or her) hand. That was great. I am not alone!

I am really interested in there opinion of modern javascript development. Of cause we all know Resig form his work for jquery and for his book ‘Pro javascript techniques’. Seeing and hearing him in real life is something different.

There will be also other speakers. What do you think of PHPcake? One of my co-workers is very enthusiastic about this frame work so I would like to hear about it a little more.

The King of code site is in the Dutch language: http://www.kingsofcode.nl/

The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good ‘ol play on words. It’s time to show off your <body>.

Diaz provides us even a small and simple PHP script to automate the removal of CSS for this day.
Please visit his website and read all about the naked day, and join the party!

Please see the video over here