Re: and people wonder why I curse Microsoft
Re: and people wonder why I curse Microsoft
- Subject: Re: and people wonder why I curse Microsoft
- From: "Arthur J. Knapp" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 11:15:05 -0400
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Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:35:08 -0300
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From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
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Subject: and people wonder why I curse Microsoft
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So I'm putting some error traps in an IE script to deal with the
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possibility of a blank window (no URL). Well, some browsers throw an
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error, some return a "", one even returns "about:blank" (all easy to
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handle), but not IE.
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{""//avaraq/\\avaraq/:avaraq/@avaraq//a-aavaraq/?avaraq/?U$& K@UD& K
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/Ud& K%UQ& K5hU'& K
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U & KU& Kj8`?H??+Y+Y};%;lines= jk #avaraq/", "Untitled"}
You may need to supply some version information. I get:
tell application "Internet Explorer" --> 5.1, on OS 9.2
GetWindowInfo 1
--
--> {"about:blank?untitled=yes", "Untitled"}
IE is notoriuos for radically different bug-behavior from one version
to the next. Their policy is that for every bug fix, a new bug must be
added. It's some sort of perversion of the law of conservation... ;-)
"Garbage" strings like the one above are often returned when a "null"
character, (ascii 0), is where an application or script isn't expecting
it to be. C strings are terminated by a null, such that a confused app
might simply start reading a memory location until it hits a null, and
then returns that.
P.S. How amusing that the server refuses to transmit 8-bit characters, but
doesn't hesitate to send control characters.
{ Arthur J. Knapp, of <
http://www.STELLARViSIONs.com>
a r t h u r @ s t e l l a r v i s i o n s . c o m
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