Bug 6179

Summary: We treat "char" as a reserved word in JavaScript and firefox/IE do not
Product: WebKit Reporter: Eric Seidel (no email) <eric>
Component: JavaScriptCoreAssignee: Geoffrey Garen <ggaren>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Normal CC: fishd, ggaren, maksim, mjs
Priority: P4    
Version: 420+   
Hardware: Mac   
OS: OS X 10.4   
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Eric Seidel (no email)
Reported 2005-12-21 01:42:35 PST
We treat "class" as a reserved word in JavaScript and firefox does not
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testcase (382 bytes, text/html)
2005-12-21 01:43 PST, Eric Seidel (no email) 		no flags
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Fix (11.68 KB, patch)
2006-05-15 19:48 PDT, Geoffrey Garen 		no flags
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Eric Seidel (no email)
Comment 1 2005-12-21 01:43:27 PST
Created attachment 5200 [details] testcase
Eric Seidel (no email)
Comment 2 2005-12-21 01:58:02 PST
This looks to be a bug in FireFox, not in Safari. Filed as: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321079
Eric Seidel (no email)
Comment 3 2005-12-21 10:43:09 PST
Actually, let's reopen this, as there are several reserved words which both IE and firefox allow, yet we do not. FireFox has a bug which they originally fixed for this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240317 And a test case: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=206492&action=view As part of the bug which I filed their they are looking to update their behavior to better match IE, which we should also consider: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321079
Maks Orlovich
Comment 4 2006-02-28 20:39:17 PST
KDE bug #120925 (http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120925) is basically about this; it affects http://www.orange.co.il/catalog/ The keywords there are "goto" and "package"
Francisco Tolmasky
Comment 5 2006-03-13 05:28:26 PST
I don't know about char, but I believe class is supposed to be reserved for "later use".
Geoffrey Garen
Comment 6 2006-05-15 17:52:45 PDT
FF reserves no "future reserved words" and the Mozilla Bugzilla entry suggests they don't plan on changing. IE reserves the following "future reserved words": class, enum, extends, super, export, import.
Geoffrey Garen
Comment 7 2006-05-15 19:48:51 PDT
Created attachment 8339 [details] Fix Posting patch for posterity -- Maciej already reviewed it.
Geoffrey Garen
Comment 8 2006-05-15 19:50:40 PDT
Landed as r14403.
Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 9 2007-02-01 06:46:29 PST
*** Bug 12527 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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