SilverTab’s Corner

Well, after trying to find what the problem was with my script (it was working well in Firefox, but not in IE, sounds familiar??) I realized that Internet Explorer doesn’t like null to be passed as the second parameter to Function.apply…

According to Mozilla’s documentation, the second parameter to Function.apply should be:

An argument array for the object, specifying the arguments with which fun should be called, or null or undefined if no arguments should be provided to the function.

Since I was using apply only to bind this I decided to pass null as the second parameter… apparently IE doesn’t like that… After a bit of searching I found out that with IE, if you want to use Function.apply and not pass any parameter, you should just omit the second parameter or else IE will throw a “TypeError” if your parameter is not an array. So basically just use:

myfunction.apply(this);

Instead of:

myfunction.apply(this, null);

It will work in Mozilla since, as they mention in their doc, the second argument can be null or undefined so… all is well, and everyone is happy!…