Sorting Tables and Safari

HomersGhost · March 15th, 2006, 03:53 PM

The Sorting Tables code borks Safari. Specifically, defining a function within a function produces a parsing error. I've tried a few ideas to make it compatible, but nothing yet. Any ideas?

nzakas · March 17th, 2006, 09:42 AM

Unfortunately, I don't have a Mac, so I'm unable to test this myself. What is the error message that you get?

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Author, Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (ISBN 0764579088)
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Stephen Wilson · March 17th, 2006, 06:03 PM

Funny I was just trying to figure this out. Thought I made a typeo or something! I tried it in Firefox on mac and it works fine, but not on Safari.

Here's the error from the javascript console if anyone can help:
Value undefined (result of expression sValue1.localeCompare) in not object

On a side note. Love the book. It has been very helpful to me.

nzakas · March 17th, 2006, 10:17 PM

Perhaps localeCompare isn't available in Safari? If you feel like experimenting, try this JavaScript code:

Code:

alert(String.prototype.localeCompare)

If this outputs "undefined", then that means Safari doesn't support this method. In that case, you can create it yourself:

Code:

String.prototype.localeCompare = function (sOther) {
    if (this < sOther) return -1;
    else if (this > sOther) return 1;
    else return 0;
}

Nicholas C. Zakas
Author, Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (ISBN 0764579088)
http://www.nczonline.net/

Stephen Wilson · March 18th, 2006, 07:09 PM

That worked great. You were right the localeCompare is undefined in safari. Adding that prototype did it! Thank you!