Fix for mootools-core.js error

[tenaki]

Visible on the demo site and my own site but there seems to be no patch for it yet? Any ideas

Timestamp: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:30:37 UTC


Message: Object doesn't support this property or method
Line: 52
Char: 3
Code: 0
URI: ../templates/beez_20/javascript/hide.js


Message: Object doesn't support this property or method
Line: 1
Char: 81199
Code: 0
URI: ../media/system/js/mootools-core.js

[realityking]

This is a known issue and will be fixed in Joomla 1.6.1 which will be released in the next few days.

[nosferatu1]

Didn't they just release 1.6 about five weeks ago? Don't these people ever test anything before they release? I think they should adopt some terms like alpha, beta, release candidate and stable. That way people would know which versions to avoid. I'm just saying.

[realityking]

There were two alpha releases, 15 betas and one release candidate. The process was and is open. Anyone could test these, or the current codebase, and report bugs against it.

However the truth is, there alway will be bugs. While Joomla 1.5 is still more stable than 1.6, there are still bugs in Joomla 1.5 too. Actually there are currently more open Bugs in the Tracker for Joomla 1.5 than Joomla 1.6.

The issue at hand was reported two days before Joomla 1.6 was released. At the time it wasn't considered important enough to let it stop the project from releasing Joomla 1.6, this was due to the fact it only concerns one, however very popular, browser and that it is only a problems for the two Beez of the templates shipped with Joomla, any template you install is not affected.

[nosferatu1]

Beez is the only template I like so I guess I have a problem.

[Webdongle]

Will it be fixed before 1.7 comes out ?

[nosferatu1]

1.7???I'm not even up to speed with 1.6 yet UGH!

[realityking]

Well...

This is a known issue and will be fixed in Joomla 1.6.1 which will be released in the next few days.

[nosferatu1]

This is a known issue and...

You're repeating yourself. Not a good sign.

[realityking]

That post was in response to Webdongle...

[nosferatu1]

If you say so.

[tenaki]

I have found that it is something to do with the search module. Disable that and the error goes away, unfortunately I want the search modeule displayed

[ghazal]

Hi,
since the line of code incriminated is related to screen-reading accessibility and WAI-ARIA-landmark-roles, I think it is not absolutely necessary at the moment.
Read this:
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2010/ ... ark-roles/
and this :
http://www.freelists.org/post/dokuwiki/ ... t-template.
In addition :
What IE doesn't like, I guess, is that in this bit of code:

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	if ($('mod-search-searchword')) {
		$('mod-search-searchword').form.setProperties( {
			role : 'search'
		});
	}

"form" in form.setProperties is not defined as a variable per se.
I repeat, just a guess.
Try to comment it, and see what happens.

Hope it helps.

[ghazal]

Hi, here is the fix :
in /templates/beez_20/javascript/hide.js
and
/templates/beez5/javascript/hide.js

Line 51 to 55, replace :

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	if ($('mod-search-searchword')) {
		$('mod-search-searchword').form.setProperties( {
			role : 'search'
		});
	}

with

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if (document.id('mod-search-searchword')) {
		document.id(document.id('mod-search-searchword').form).set( {
			role : 'search'
		});
	}

Should work now.

[tenaki]

Excellent thats got it fixed