http://robertdot.org A web design blog for designers that develop or developers that design. Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:43:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 http://robertdot.org/2005/07/05/mozilla-javascript-regexp-test-bug/ http://robertdot.org/2005/07/05/mozilla-javascript-regexp-test-bug/#comments Tue, 05 Jul 2005 13:49:06 +0000 Robert http://robertdot.org/2009/01/14/mozilla-javascript-regexp-test-bug/ There is what some consider to be a bug in Mozilla’s JavaScript engine. Basically, if you run a regular expression with a global switch (e.g. /x/g), JavaScript remembers the last match position. This causes the RegExp to sometimes validate as true, and sometimes as false (alternatingly). The Mozilla guys say it isn’t a bug. However, removing the /g solves the problem.

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