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Annoying issue with Javascript and arrays
Stumbled across this one recently. Stumbled as in I fell down, grazed my knees, and couldn’t get up properly for a couple of hours. Turns out that arrays in Javascript can have a length that is totally utterly wrong. :(
It’s not the ComboBox’s fault
Weiqi Gao complains that combo boxes are lame because you can’t type in them. He gives a good example of the state abbrevation MO for Missouri; in a typical drop-down list of US states, you need to go through seven M’s to get there.
There are times that I really hate Internet Explorer
I’m working on putting some band-aid fixes into an application supplied to work by an outside vendor. For various reasons, I can’t say who, which I really think is a shame, but…