James Titcumb

Oh how I love IE. I have an “Unspecified error.” On line 1. Really? Wow, that’s a useful error message. Almost as useful as Object expected. And Unknown Runtime Error.

So back in England and working again. Here’s a couple of tech-related links I read about today:

• Microsoft to add ‘super standards’ mode to IE8
• Coding Styles: bools, structs, or enums?

Interesting? Well this is the first IE8-related article I’ve read, so I don’t really know what to make of it yet. I still am vehemently in love with Firefox, so it would take a miracle for IE8 to wow me. As for the bit on C#, just generally a nice little bit of code. I’ve not read through the comments, but I like the idea of C# object initialisers.

I still prefer LAMP though… I love LAMP.

Wow, I just learnt that Array.indexOf does not work in IE. How bad is that?!

Check out here for a simple solution:

http://www.soledadpenades.com/2007/05/17/arrayindexof-in-internet-explorer/

	if(!Array.indexOf){
	    Array.prototype.indexOf = function(obj){
	        for(var i=0; i<this.length; i++){
	            if(this[i]==obj){
	                return i;
	            }
	        }
	        return -1;
	    }
	}

Personally, I would’ve done a very similar thing.

So, as many people do, I’m going to blog about Internet Explorer’s fantastic “Unknown Runtime Error”, even if it’s just to remind my self and rant at how badly designed Internet Explorer is.

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