Comments on: Another reason to name variables properly

By: admin

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:14:59 +0000

RSS feed is in the botom right hand corner… or here http://www.gavey.ca/index.php/feed/

Think I need to update it more…

By: Nickole Hudler

Nickole Hudler — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:19:53 +0000

Interesting blog you got here but I can’t seem to find the RSS button.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:29:54 +0000

Thanks for the tip, it’s funny, I always believed the opposite was true, Now I know better. How did I get along so well with that mis-truth?

The only other thing I would add is that this status bar behavior was specific to IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera all the rest didn’t behave this way. status was a variable not a pointer to window.status expect in IE.

By: Skowron

Skowron — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:11:40 +0000

> So lesson learned always name your variables using detailed naming conventions.

if you write:

var status=obj.innerHTML;

nothing bad won’t happen. That’s because in JavaScript every variable is global IF doesn’t has “var” keyword. Thats means it is also accessible from window['my_variable_name'].

So if you set variable status you overwrite window['status'] and in IE window status is changed