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Defaultless prompt()s default to "undefined" in IE

Bug #411729 reported by William Grant
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IVLE
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David Coles
IVLE 1.0 "pineapple"

Bug Description

JavaScript prompt()s without a default value specified appear with the default text "undefined" in IE8. This is undesirable, and considered a blocker for declaring IE8 support.

It doesn't affect WebKit, Gecko or Presto.

This should hopefully be fixed by replacing all uses of prompt() with something better.

Tags: ie8
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David Coles (dcoles) wrote :

Something better being jQuery UI? I believe that was the plan discussed at some point. Certainly it gives us a lot more flexibility and doesn't take out all open tabs with it's modal demands.

(And surely IE8 shouldn't be rendering null and undefined in this case?)

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William Grant (wgrant) wrote : Re: [Bug 411729] Re: Defaultless prompt()s default to "undefined" in IE

On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 01:31 +0000, David Coles wrote:
> Something better being jQuery UI? I believe that was the plan discussed
> at some point. Certainly it gives us a lot more flexibility and doesn't
> take out all open tabs with it's modal demands.

Yes, jQuery UI dialogs are the new solution.

> (And surely IE8 shouldn't be rendering null and undefined in this case?)

I suspect they want to discourage developers as much as possible from
using alert() and prompt(); they're utterly awful in IE[78].

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Matt Giuca (mgiuca) wrote :

Solution to this bug is to change them all to prompt("").

Using jQuery will be considered the solution to Bug #411731.

Changed in ivle:
milestone: none → 1.0
David Coles (dcoles)
Changed in ivle:
status: Triaged → In Progress
assignee: nobody → David Coles (dcoles)
David Coles (dcoles)
Changed in ivle:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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David Coles (dcoles) wrote :

All uses of prompt have been fixed so that they have a default text (usually just "").

William Grant (wgrant)
Changed in ivle:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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