Mac OS X javascript

[Darin Adler]

On Feb 8, 2004, at 11:11 AM, Harri Porten wrote:

> I'm not employed by Apple Computers.

I do work for Apple Computer.

>> I noticed today that a certain feature (it happened to be how the
>> "constructor" property) was handled differently in Safari from all
>> other browser/platform implementations.  The following code:
>>
>> 	<script language="Javascript">
>> 		function Circle(radius) {this.r = radius;}
>> 		var c = new Circle(1.0);      // Create an instance of the Circle
>> class.
>> 		if (c.constructor == Circle) {alert("Circle");} else 
>> {alert("What?");}
>> 	</script>
>>
>> produced "What?" in Safari, but "Circle" everywhere else.
>
> Works fine in Konqueror from KDE 3.2. Guess there's patch missing in 
> the JavaScriptCore tree.

This was broken in Safari 1.0, but I fixed it in October and it works 
fine in Safari 1.1 and newer.

I sent the patch to khtml-devel on October 2, and Harri rolled it in to 
KDE. That's why it works fine in KDE 3.2.

     -- Darin