Subj : Re: Error
To   : Wai Doan Hsu <waidoan@hotmail.com>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Fri May 09 2003 08:16 pm

Wrong newsgroup -- see followup-to: setting.

/be

Wai Doan Hsu wrote:

>I'm using this relatively simple function, which is working fine in
>IE, Netscape 4.xx, and Opera.  In  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
>5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 when it gets to the
>window.location.href (line 43), which actually seems to work, it gets
>the error below and never makes it to the "leaving" part.  The call to
>mailTo is followed by a return false, which is not working either.
>
>What's going on here?
>
>function mailTo(subject,itemName,domain,dataItem){
>	var address = itemName+"@"+domain;	alert("starting");
>	window.location.href="mailto:"+address+"?subject="+subject+"&body="+dataItem+'
>';
>	alert("leaving"); 
>};
>
>
>
>Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure
>code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMLocation.href]"  nsresult:
>"0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::
>file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/localuser/Desktop/browsertest.html#
>:: mailTo :: line 43"  data: no]
>  
>

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