Subj : Re: Spidermonkey/js =>> alert() function
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Keith MacDonald
Date : Wed May 25 2005 10:20 am

It sounds like you are running jsshell.  If so, type "help();" to find out 
what functions it implements.  alert() is implemented by the browser code 
that embeds JavaScript (ie. FireFox).

<user@domain.invalid> wrote in message 
news:d701a0$g3s1@ripley.netscape.com...
>I have spidermonkey installed on Linux RH 9.0,
> version 1.5 pre-release 6a
>
> What I'm looking for (and please feel free to tell me if I'm "barking up 
> the wrong tree" = BUTWT) is some sort of a testing environment for 
> Javascript that will be used in web pages and content from CGI scripts.
>
> spidermonkey compiled without complaint (no config changes on my part),
> but am unclear on what features are available.
>
> Example: I start js from a local directory and invoke
> load('valid.js') // javascript source in same directory
> PhoneHelp()      // javascript function containing a call to alert
> // error message:
> valid.js:2: ReferenceError: alert is not defined
>
> Question:
> 1)Is there a component of the API that contains the alert() function
>   that has not been loaded?
>   a)If so, how do I load it.
>   b)If not, that probably goes for the DOM as well, so am I using
>     the wrong application for my needs (thus BUTWT)?
>
> Any recommendations, pointers to documentation are welcome. I could find 
> nothing in README.html that came with the spidermonkey code regarding this 
> subject.
>
> Thanks
> Tim

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