Class BrowserFlavor

Defined in flavors.js

BrowserFlavor defines a version of XBLinJS for a conventional HTML browser. IE6 and Mozilla are tested, others are not but should probably go here.

It is possible that if cross-browser becomes too much to deal with, that we will actually create MozillaBrowserFlavor or IEFlavor, and dynamically select which flavor is the BrowserFlavor at runtime. Regardless, if you choose BrowserFlavor, you should get what you're looking for in your code.

Field Detail

flavorConstants

Object flavorConstants

Browser constants

The constants are:

• isIE: True if this is an IE browser.
• isGecko: True if this is a Gecko browser: Mozilla, Firefox, something like that.
• isSafari: True if this is Safari.
• isKonqueror: True if this is Konqueror.

These should of course be used sparingly, but it can be unavoidable at times.

flavorFixups

Object flavorFixups

Browser fixups

The fixups are:

• IEDocumentTagConstants: This function restores the DOM constants like ELEMENT_NODE on the document node; with this flavor you can always compare to document.ELEMENT_NODE. (It'll also fix up any browser with a similar error; document.ELEMENT_NODE is checked, not isIE.

BrowserFlavor

BrowserFlavor()

BrowserFlavor - conventional browser flavor for XBLinJS

attachHandlerToNode

void attachHandlerToNode(node, event, handler)

Attach an event handler to a node

The Browser flavor attaches an event to a node by setting the attribute of the node directly, e.g. node.onclick = func.

createElement

Object createElement(nodeType)

create an element

In HTML mode, we assume DOM 1, which does not support namespaces via document.createElementNS. Create the node with document.createElement.

getAttributeFrom

Object getAttributeFrom(node, key)

Gets an attribute from a node, be it Widget or DOM node

Like setAttributeOn, this flattens class and className to className, but it doesn't try to deal with style. Avoid retrieving style with this method, or take your lumps on IE.

Since it is possible for element[key] != element.getAttribute(key), this will try to use element[key], since that seems somewhat more reliable, but if that fails to come up with anything, will try element.getAttribute(key).

getElementsByTagName

Object getElementsByTagName(tagName, node)

setAttributeOn

void setAttributeOn(node, key, value)

Set an attribute on the node, be it Widget or DOM node

This generally uses both node[key] = value, and node.setAttribute(key, value), with the following exceptions:

• Both class and className are flattened to node.className = value.