JavaScript Error Drama

September 12, 2007 8:02 PM

favorites.js refers to document.getElementById("fav") which is null. This will lead to error pop-ups on every page for some users. If this is not immediately fixed I will resign my membership in protest.
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 to Bugs at 8:02 PM (23 comments total)

Hmm, is this new? Nothing has changed in the javascript for at least a couple months.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:04 PM on September 12, 2007

It may have been there for a while without bothering me. Now my Visual Studio debugger seems intent on leaping in there to protect me with error popups. IE7 on XP. Mozilla doesn't seem to use the script at all, so no problem there.
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 8:15 PM on September 12, 2007

no, please, don't resign!

matt, can I have his favorites?
posted by misha at 8:34 PM on September 12, 2007

A Junior Kabaddi Champion never resigns!

EMRJKC94 is a fraud!!!
posted by wendell at 8:38 PM on September 12, 2007 [1 favorite]

Can you DJ your retirement party? That mashup was wicked.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 8:44 PM on September 12, 2007

I will also resign EMRJKC94's membership if this is not fixed.
posted by maxwelton at 11:54 PM on September 12, 2007

If maxwelton resings EMRJKC94, I will drop my loot.


I have no idea what that means, but it sounds kinda gross, don't it? Ha!


Okay later guys
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 5:33 AM on September 13, 2007

NA NA NA NA

NA NA NA NA

HEY HEY

GOODBYE
posted by quonsar at 5:56 AM on September 13, 2007

Well, sure GNFTI, if I had one of those cheap plastic 4-string loots, I'd threaten to drop it, too.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 6:17 AM on September 13, 2007

Everybody, everybody: WIPE UP YOUR LOOT WHEN YOU'RE DONE!!

That's just nasty.
posted by LordSludge at 6:37 AM on September 13, 2007

Goddammit, it's spelled LEWTZ.

Christ, you people.
posted by aramaic at 6:52 AM on September 13, 2007 [1 favorite]

CHRIST = YOU PEOPLE.
posted by koeselitz at 8:03 AM on September 13, 2007

Christ spoke Aramaic.

aramaic spoke: "Christ, you people."
posted by kindall at 8:17 AM on September 13, 2007 [1 favorite]

If you're using Visual Studio then annoying pop-ups are the least of you're worries.
posted by oh pollo! at 8:18 AM on September 13, 2007

ܐܪܡܝܐ
posted by languagehat at 9:16 AM on September 13, 2007

Whoa, there's a whole Aramaic Wikipedia. Who knew?
posted by languagehat at 9:18 AM on September 13, 2007

I did. But you never asked.
posted by ardgedee at 9:25 AM on September 13, 2007

For the record, I bet my right hand against JavaScript's lies. Under any amount of torture, he will break first, because he is lying. If I break first, I will surrender my right hand.

A real man would say, "Take a knife, EMRJKC94, and face JavaScript to the death." If they would not say that, they could at least say, "We'll shock both of you with electiricity until JavaScript admits his lies." I would accept either decision.
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 9:53 AM on September 13, 2007

I just luted all over the place.

But then, I'm a strolling minstrel, so that kinda makes sense.
posted by quin at 9:55 AM on September 13, 2007

The mormons don't think they will cope.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 11:07 AM on September 13, 2007

(because there's a lute in there, yo)
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 11:09 AM on September 13, 2007

EMRJKC94, there's got to be a way to disable it. I remember this used to be a huge annoyance for me, but at some point I managed to get rid of those popups (I think by editing the registry and removing one of the "Class" keys that acted as a plugin for the jscript parser).

That, or just stop using IE.
posted by spiderskull at 11:52 AM on September 13, 2007

Here's some relevent links. If you need the javascript debugging, use Firefox or Opera with the Java(script) console open.
posted by spiderskull at 11:54 AM on September 13, 2007