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Tooltips bug: setting a property that has only a getter

Post by timski

This error turns up sometimes in power.js ( http://static.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js ). This only seems to be an issue in Firefox. But that's the most popular browser, so a hard error to ignore. Firefox 3.5.7 renders no tooltips, and Firebug will log a specific error:
setting a property that has only a getter
http://static.wowhead.com/js/basic.js?4
Line 1

Firefox 3.5 test case: Clear the cache (options-advanced-network-why is it so hard to find?) and then type these link into the same browser window, in order:
1. http://www.elsanglin.com/why_fish.html - no power.js, no error
2. http://www.elsanglin.com/faq.html - power.js, error
3. http://www.elsanglin.com/skill_and_location.html - power.js, no error
4. http://www.elsanglin.com/faq.html - and force a refresh - power.js, no error

Needless to say, this is driving me nuts.

I've tried (on a localhost test version) removing all my Javascript from these pages (menu.js and page.js), but the errors persist. So I'm fairly, but not completely, sure this is a Wowhead problem, or something to do with the way I'm using the tooltip code (mixes of direct links and rel="item=nn" internal links).

Post by AlicanC

It looks like something they did yesterday broke Powered by Wowhead. I've found an older version of it and it worked perfectly.

Post by Skosiris

I just tried to reproduce this error and failed. Using Firefox 3.6.

Is it still doing it for you?

Post by timski

Is it still doing it for you?
Yes. Now tested with 3.6. No improvement.

Also worth adding that I first noticed this a few weeks ago, so it's not due to a very recent code change. But it isn't something that's been happening for years either.

Tooltips bug: setting a property that has only a getter

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