Needle haystack cluttering code

[bsimkinsATintsoftDOTch]

1) A comment somewhere to explain what this stuff is would be nice 2) I would quite like to 'kill' these extra functions before saving - with specialReplacements - is this a good idea or is there a better way?

Thanks

[gogo]

I can't make head nor tail of what you are talking about. Can you try re-explaining your problem please.

[gogo]

No response. CLosing

[benDOTsimkinsATintsoftDOT.ch]

Sorry, I hadn't been back in a while. I mean this stuff:

if(!Array.prototype.contains) {

Array.prototype.contains = function(needle) {

var haystack = this; for(var i = 0; i < haystack.length; i++)

{

if(needle == haystack[i]) return true;

}

return false;

};

}

if(!Array.prototype.indexOf) {

Array.prototype.indexOf = function(needle) {

var haystack = this; for(var i = 0; i < haystack.length; i++) {

if(needle == haystack[i]) return i;

}

return null;

};

}

What's it for? I've rigged something to regexp it out when I submit, which doesn't seem to have broken anything, but I'd like to know for sure.

[anonymous]

Where are you seeing this? Actually being put into the HTML you are editing in Xinha?! If so, please provide an example of the HTML you edited triggering this behaviour.

These are methods added to the prototype of Array (the javascript Array object), they are added in htmlarea.js. You shouldn't remove them from there because it will break stuff that uses them.

[benDOTsimkinsATintsoftDOT.ch]

It's a while ago now, but it was on <P> tags that I was seeing this kind of thing:

<p contains="
function (needle) {
    var haystack = this;
    for (var i = 0; i &lt; haystack.length; i++) {
        if (needle == haystack[i]) {
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}
" indexof="
function (needle) {
    var haystack = this;
    for (var i = 0; i &lt; haystack.length; i++) {
        if (needle == haystack[i]) {
            return i;
        }
    }
    return null;
}
" append="
function (a) {
    for (var i = 0; i &lt; a.length; i++) {
        this.push(a[i]);
    }
    return this;
}
">
</p>

Obviously, now I want to, I can't reproduce it... I'll remove my RegExp? hack from my code, and post here if I see the problem again.