Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
kangax wrote:
Peter Michaux wrote:
[...]
For use on the general web, feature testing is required. I remember
that feature testing for the Safari infinite loading state bug when
setting the location.hash property was at least not obvious to me.
Safari was really breaking a long standing feature of browsers.
Wouldn't it be possible to use hidden iframe to test hash setter
reloading a document?
I do not understand. Please elaborate.
Something along these lines: (only tested in S2 and FF3)
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
(function(){
function createIframeEl() {
var elIframe = document.createElement('iframe');
elIframe.src = '';
elIframe.width = elIframe.height = 1;
return elIframe;
}
var elIframe = createIframeEl();
document.body.appendChild(elIframe);
var iframeContext = window.frames[0];
var uniquePropName = +(new Date());
iframeContext[uniquePropName] = 'foo';
iframeContext.location.hash = 'blah';
setTimeout(function(){
alert(iframeContext[uniquePropName]);
}, 100);
})();
</script>
</body>
</html>
