method.call(..) throws "object doesn't support this property" on some browsers

[Sanjiv Jivan]

There's a call in prototype
__method.call(object, event || window.event);

which works fine on several machines which have IE 6 however on a couple of them (also running IE 6) it throws the exception "Object doesn't support this property or method".

Any idea why I'm seeing this error? The "call(..)" function is part of JS, right? Or is it possible I have an older JS engine.

Thanks,
Sanjiv

[Eric Pascarello]

Call is not supported in IE 5 and under.

I am guessing that your object reference is not there when you are trying to make a call.

How to debug? Well it will be tough. You need to examine the object to see if it actually contains one.

if(typeof yourObjectRef != "object")alert("AHHHH");

Eric

[Sanjiv Jivan]

This code is in the prototype library (prototype.js) and works fine in many IE 6 browsers. The very same page just breaks on a couple of machines where I suspect the JS engine maybe older although the browser version is IE 6. Is there a quick way to determine the JS engine version.

I ran my code through a JS debugger and (typeof __method) returns "function".

Thanks,
Sanjiv