IE 8 is no better

Today I spent a long time debugging an error in IE8 that said "Object doesn't support this property or method."  It was in some testing code. The line was:

  hello=$('#divName');

This works perfectly in Firefox.

The solution? You're gonna love this. "hello" is a reserved word in IE. Change it to:

xxx=$('divName');

Works.

Oh, but that's not all. IE8 has it's own definition of window.setTimeout(). 

The rest of the world defines it thus:

setTimeout(function, milliseconds, arguments);

The 'arguments' are passed to the function when the 'function' is called after the timeout.

IE? 

setTimeout(function, milliseconds, language);

Language? It very nicely explains that you can't pass arguments to the callback function. It doesn't explain why it doesn't do this obvious thing that everyone else does.

Solution?

timeoutProxy= function(func, milliseconds, scope, args) {

    if ($.browser.msie == true) {
            setTimeout(function() {
                        func(scope, args) 
            }, milliseconds);
        }
        else {
            setTimeout(func, 1000, scope, args);
        }

    }

timeoutProxy(setAcceptClicks, 500, this, {});

Arrgggh!!