[Pas2js] Random bugs and observations

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 11 May 2018, Ryan Joseph wrote:

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>> On May 11, 2018, at 2:07 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
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>> Correct, this is not a property of TJSElement.
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>> TJSNode has innerText and textContent
>> TJSElement has innerHTML and outerHTML
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> I got that from the WebGL docs like seen below. I added the property myself and it does in fact return the tags text content. I guess it’s the same as textContent or innerHTML perhaps.
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> 	• var vertexShaderSource = document.getElementById("2d-vertex-shader").text;
> 	• var fragmentShaderSource = document.getElementById("2d-fragment-shader").text;

Now you know why Javascript is not typesafe.

If the actual element returned by document.getElementById has a .text property,
Javascript will happily return it at runtime. It may also be a browser-specific
property.

If no such property exists, you will get undefined.

Michael.