Random thoughts

Tracking down a nasty bug in some JavaScript code I wrote has taken me a while. Granted, the actual script was slightly more complex and much longer, and I may be somewhat out of practice too.

This script worked perfectly fine in Firefox, in Seamonkey, even in Opera but failed miserably in Internet Explorer with the not so helpful error message 'undefined' is null or not an object:

var items = [
  {id: 'type', condition: !document.referrer},
  {id: 'link', condition: !!document.referrer},
];

for (var i=0; i < items.length; i++) {
  var item = items[i];
  if(typeof(item.condition) == 'undefined' || item.condition) { // Bang!                                               
      // do something useful
  }

Can you see the problem (and why this works in Mozilla)?

Labels: javascript, webdevelopment