And there is a related issue, which is that the page "test_map.html" loaded
inside the OBJECT does not see "window.parent" as the parent index.html, but
rather identifies itself ("test_map.html") as window.parent. I'm
(obvioussly) not a professional programmer, so I'm wondering whether the fact
that it works in Firefox is due to a laxity there, or whether there is some
IE bug that's getting in the way here. Can anyone illuminate, please?
Thansk. -- Dave

"muggler" wrote:

> I could use some insight from any JavaSript people here (again). This is a
> little convoluted, so bear with me please:
>
> I have a main page (http://jewishintellectualtimeline.com/index.html) which
> loads a page "test_map.html" inside an OBJECT (which in turn is inside a
> DIV), like so:
>
> <div id="object_wrapper">....
> <OBJECT data="test_map.html" width="100%" height="100%">
> <p>Sorry, the map could not be loaded due to browser limitations.</p>
> </OBJECT> ...</div>
>
> (The reasons for using the OBJECT here are related to limitations of the
> Google Maps API. Not relevant.) Now, in the loaded "test_map.html" I have
> the following script code to assign a name "gWindow" to this loaded window:
>
> window.name = "gWindow";
>
> The reason I do this is becuase I want to be able to call functions in
> "test_map.html" from the parent file "index.html". For example, I have code
> in "index.html" like
>
> onclick="javascript:gWindow.loadMap([[32.536389,44.420833]],[[30.5364,42.4208],[34.5364,46.4208]],['Babylonia'])...
>
> which calls the loadMap function defined in "test_map.html".
>
> The upshot is that all this works fine in Firefox (no errors from Firebug).
> But in IE7, I get an error saying that "'gWindow' is undefined". Any ideas
> why IE7 cannot see this variable, while Firefox can? Workarounds? Thanks a
> lot! -- Dave