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Keith Adler
Keith Adler

Reputation: 21178

Why does this fail in Firefox and Chrome?

This is a common piece of JavaScript used to show a customer splash screen in Silverlight:

function onSourceDownloadProgressChanged(sender, eventArgs) {
            var myHost = document.getElementById("Xaml1");
            var rectBar = myHost.content.findName("rectBar");
            var rectBorder = myHost.content.findName("rectBorder");
            if (eventArgs.progress)
                rectBar.Width = eventArgs.progress * rectBorder.Width;
            else
                rectBar.Width = eventArgs.get_progress() * rectBorder.Width;
        }

For some reason, Firefox and Chrome get errors on this line:

var rectBar = myHost.content.findName("rectBar");

They complain that "myHost is null".

This works fine in Internet Explorer, but in Firefox and Chrome the progress bar is never updated because of this error.

The key portion it is traversing looks like this:

<div id="silverlightControlHost">
        <object id="xaml1" data="data:application/x-silverlight-2," type="application/x-silverlight-2" width="100%" height="100%">
          <param name="source" value="ClientBin/MyApp.xap"/>
          <param name="onError" value="onSilverlightError" />
          <param name="background" value="white" />
          <param name="minRuntimeVersion" value="4.0.50826.0" />
          <param name="autoUpgrade" value="true" />
          <param name="splashscreensource" value="ClientBin/SplashScreen.xaml" />    
          <param name="onSourceDownloadProgressChanged" value="onSourceDownloadProgressChanged" />
          <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=149156&v=4.0.50826.0" style="text-decoration:none">
              <img src="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=161376" alt="Get Microsoft Silverlight" style="border-style:none"/>
          </a>
        </object><iframe id="_sl_historyFrame" style="visibility:hidden;height:0px;width:0px;border:0px"></iframe></div>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 453

Answers (2)

Lightness Races in Orbit
Lightness Races in Orbit

Reputation: 385204

Because it's xaml1, not Xaml1, and Internet Explorer is too lazy to care about your typo.

Upvotes: 4

jcomeau_ictx
jcomeau_ictx

Reputation: 38462

because the other browsers are case-sensitive. "Xaml1" != "xaml1"

Upvotes: 3

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