[Wikiwyg-dev] IE Windows : Unspecified Error in Wysiwyg.js

[Mike Chambers <mchamber@adobe.com>]

I am trying to get wikiwyg working with DokuWiki. However, I am  
running into an issue with IE and wikiwyg.

IE 6 is giving me an "Unspecified Error" when it encounters this  
function in Wysiwyg.js

---
proto.get_edit_document = function() {
    return this.edit_iframe.contentWindow.document;
}
---

Specifically, it is barfing on

this.edit_iframe.contentWindow

---
proto.get_edit_document = function() {
    alert(this);
    alert(this.edit_iframe);
    alert(this.edit_iframe.contentWindow); //barfs on this
    var d = this.edit_iframe.contentWindow.document;
    return d;
}
---

IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158

Didn't find much info online about this, but I did come across this:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/02/08/iframe.html

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Sadly, referencing the IFRAME's document object is no simple task,  
since IE5, IE5.5, IE6, and NS6 all provide different ways to access  
it. IE5, both on the Mac and PC, provides the simplest method:  
IFRAMEs in this browser show up in the document.frames array and have  
a document property. In IE5.5, IE6 and NS6, you can retrieve the  
IFRAME element object with document.getElementByID(), then, in NS6,  
use the object's contentDocument property, and in IE 5.5+, use the  
document property of the IFRAME object's contentWindow property.  
That's quite a mouthful, isn't it?
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Is this a known issue? Has anyone else ran into this? Any known  
workarounds?

mike chambers