Mozilla, document.open & memory

[ReGenesis0]

I'm trying to rewrite the existing window using javascript. This
works fine in IE- but in Mozilla, after I call a window.open, Mozilla
starts wandering around like an alshiemers patient and bumping into
doors.

Specificly, Mozilla seems to be losing my... functions. Or
variables. Except, I've tried alerts with dummy variables, and it
seems to find THEM just fine...
Does Mozilla start unloading existing memory right after a
document.open call? As currently structured, my script calles an open,
then skips aroudn through functions, performing a series of
document.writes before closing.
Would this problem go away if instead of performing that nonlinear
series of writes, it performed a series of additions to a string and I
just did one open/write/close at the end? (Doign so would be a neither
major nor minor alteration, so I'm asking before attempting it.)

Theological question: Who is 'right' here against the ruler of how
javascript is SUPPOSED to perform? Have I simply been benefittign from
IE's tardy/nonexistant memory cleanup, or is Mozilla overeager?
(assuming, again, it is memory cleanup I'm running into.)

Any help appreciated. I don't think I'm using anything beyond
Javascript 1.2.

-Derik

 

[Lee]

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I'm trying to rewrite the existing window using javascript. This
works fine in IE- but in Mozilla, after I call a window.open, Mozilla
starts wandering around like an alshiemers patient and bumping into
doors.

Specificly, Mozilla seems to be losing my... functions. Or
variables. Except, I've tried alerts with dummy variables, and it
seems to find THEM just fine...
Does Mozilla start unloading existing memory right after a
document.open call? As currently structured, my script calles an open,
then skips aroudn through functions, performing a series of
document.writes before closing.
Would this problem go away if instead of performing that nonlinear
series of writes, it performed a series of additions to a string and I
just did one open/write/close at the end? (Doign so would be a neither
major nor minor alteration, so I'm asking before attempting it.)

Theological question: Who is 'right' here against the ruler of how
javascript is SUPPOSED to perform? Have I simply been benefittign from
IE's tardy/nonexistant memory cleanup, or is Mozilla overeager?
(assuming, again, it is memory cleanup I'm running into.)

Any help appreciated. I don't think I'm using anything beyond
Javascript 1.2.

I consider Mozilla to be right, but I doubt that the standard is that
specific. The first thing that a window.open() call does, at least in
Mozilla, is to invoke window.clear(), so yes, you'll want to accumulate
your output and do a single document.write().

 

[RobG]

I'm trying to rewrite the existing window using javascript. This
works fine in IE- but in Mozilla, after I call a window.open, Mozilla
starts wandering around like an alshiemers patient and bumping into
doors.

For the record:

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disorder that gradually destroys a person’s memory and
ability to learn, reason, make judgments, communicate and
carry out daily activities."

<URL:http://www.alz.org/AboutAD/WhatIsAD.asp>


Please be a little more circumspect in the description of your
browser-related problems.

 

[ReGenesis0]

The first thing that a window.open() call does, at
least in Mozilla, is to invoke window.clear(), so
yes, you'll want to accumulate your output and do
a single document.write().

I did that- which makes my script much neater under the hood, thanks--
but continued to experience the same problem.

Guess what worked?
Omitting the explicit document.open() and letting mozilla use the
one implicit in document.write().

*throws tantrum*

WHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYY? Why why why why WHY?

...why? I hate voodoo-scripting. "I'm not sure WHY it worked,
but when I put a space BEFORE the semi-colon..."

Why?

no, seriously, why?
-Derik