IE sucks sweaty mangina · 2007-04-19 13:55
I swear every time I have to test some of my code on this POS browser it makes me feel like throwing my workstation through the window. (Why use Windows™ when there's a door? har har) Why are there the browsers that everything works with and then IE?
Well maybe this particular problem isn't the worst but it's generated a few hours worth of work. So maybe I should be grateful!
But being the ungrateful code jockey and standards nazi that I am I'm going to have a bit of a bitch and a whinge at IE and wonder at what drugs these guys were coming down from when they wrote it.
Bit of background. I'm doing a Javascript class to SUM() arbitrary rows and columns on a bunch of HTML <input> tags with IDs like "a1" and "e7". You get the idea. Ordinarily one would just attach events to these tags that, when the contents changed, re-calculates the total. Ordinarily, element.addEventListener would be used.
Keep in mind that I said arbitrary before. Meaning I want to be able to SUM any combination of cells including overlapping cells.
IE has an equivalent method, attachEvent but unfortunately it's about as useful as tits on a bull. For good reason: attachEvent's parent object is the document! Basically this means that you can't tell where an event is coming from. When you're trying to do something a bit more complex than change the background colour of your website it's just not on.
What's a hacker to do? write their own event model based on the most supported one, of course. I'll let you know how it goes.
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