dojox.html.ellipsis fails loading on FF4

[talisto]

dojox.html.ellipsis fails to load on the latest Firefox 4 beta, resulting in this error:

failed loading dojo/../dojox/html/ellipsis.js with error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE) [nsIDOMHTMLDocument.createElementNS]"  nsresult: "0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)"  location: "JS frame :: http://sandbox.local/dojo.git/dojo/_base/_loader/bootstrap.js :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 495"  data: no]
http://sandbox.local/dojo.git/dojo/_base/_loader/loader.js
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I'm not sure if bug reports for beta versions of Firefox are desired, but Firefox 4 is almost at RC, so I thought it might be worth mentioning.

I've attached a simple test-case. I've tested this on Firefox 3 and it works fine. I've also tested that this error occurs on Firefox 4 with both Dojo 1.5 and Dojo 1.6b2.

This is the only component that I have experienced an error loading in Firefox 4 (so far).

[Adam Peller]

this code fails from the firebug console:

try{document.createElementNS('http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul','window');}catch(e){console.error(e)}

[Adam Peller]

​https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Firefox_4_for_developers#Remote_XUL_support_removed Means we'd better at least catch the exception going forward. Not sure if there's any other workable solution for ellipses on FF.

[Adam Peller]

(In [23756]) Catch exception in FF 4.0 for using XUL. Refs #12270

[Adam Peller]

This feature is presently broken for FF4+ so the code is useless going forward, unfortunately. How do we handle this?

[Adam Peller]

(In [23758]) Add deprecation messages. Fixes #12270

[Adam Peller]

(In [23759]) add warning for FF4. Refs #12270

[Adam Peller]

(In [23760]) Correct version. Refs #12270

[Adam Peller]

(In [23822]) ellipsis is deprecated. Refs #12270

[Adam Peller]

I may have been too hasty. There's a non-XUL branch in there.

[Bryan Forbes]

Fix for 1.6

[Bryan Forbes]

I have attached a patch against the 1.6 branch that only wraps the XUL portion of the branch for Firefox in a try/catch. This allows the non-XUL function to run in FF4.

[Adam Peller]

Thanks, Bryan! Applied to trunk in r24179

[Adam Peller]

(In [24182]) applying Bryan's patch to undeprecate ellipsis on 1.6 Fixes #12270

[bill]

(just changing summary so searches for FF4 find this ticket in addition to the others)

[Kenneth G. Franqueiro]

Updating milestone to 1.5.2 to reflect inclusion in changeset [26956] for ticket #14199.