Question

When I depoly this code in IE8

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="http://static.polldaddy.com/p/5968383.js"></script>
<noscript><a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/5968383/">This is a test question ?</a></noscript>

and run as a local file I receive this error :

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
Timestamp: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 09:30:39 UTC


Message: '_container' is null or not an object
Line: 63
Char: 6669
Code: 0
URI: http://static.polldaddy.com/p/6343643.js

When I this page onto a server, or run locally using chrome or firefox it seems to work fine, could it be a firewall blocking something when I try to run locally ?

Here is 6343643.js which is being imported, ive truncated some code because of question character limit :

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Answer 1

The following fragment fails:

if(typeof _container!=="undefined"||_container!==null){_container.appendChild(h)}else{document.body.appendChild(h)}

The condition is redundant (as its parts are mutually exclusive); it will always result to true (and thus the else part will never be executed), as there are 3 options:

1. _container === undefined. In this case, typeof _container!=="undefined" is false, and _container!==null is true, so the combined expression is true.
2. _container === null. In this case, typeof _container!=="undefined" is true, and _container!==null is false, so the combined expression is true.
3. In all other cases, both typeof _container!=="undefined" and _container!==null are true, so the combined expression is true.

Probably you meant to write

if(_container){_container.appendChild(h)}else{document.body.appendChild(h)}

Also, it is better to show people out here your non-minified version of JS code; it is easier to debug through.