Comments on: Internet Explorer Array.sort Unreliable

By: Al

Al — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:42:07 +0000

Thanks so much for posting this. I was banging my head against the wall before I came across this.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:24:42 +0000

Thanks for this. I bumped to the similar problem. I thought surely sort-functions the same in all browser, but should’ve known better.

In my case the switching
return (a.label > b.label);
to
return (a.label > b.label ? 1 : -1);
made IE work.

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By: Aldonio

Aldonio — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 01:33:28 +0000

Really thanks for your article, that issue of IE was driving me crazy.

What I did to fix it before reading your article was to put the same code in a try/catch statepent but I wasn’t happy with that solution :P

http://pastebin.com/wCKbuuDV

By: mort

mort — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:33:35 +0000

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!

By: Mario Zito

Mario Zito — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:31:43 +0000

GREAT POST
It just has happened me after having worked ok in my scripts for some time and was quite confussed about the cause. This saved me MANY hours of debugging in IE.
THANKS !

By: JKL

JKL — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:52:39 +0000

For the benefit of Google, that last sentence should have been:

The typeof operator returned “unknown.”

By: JKL

JKL — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:48:13 +0000

Excellent post. In my case this bug caused the first parameter to become undefined. Inspecting it in the script debugger gave a “Variable uses an Automation type not supported in JScript” error. The typeof operator returned “unkown.”

By: Valentin Iliescu

Valentin Iliescu — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:46:59 +0000

IE 9 Preview seems to be fine, ran the test several times with no failures.

By: Pritesh Patel

Pritesh Patel — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:07:42 +0000

Thanks for this. I got my sort function working in IE8 because of this. Otherwise, it was only working in Firefox and Google Chrome.

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By: Zach Leatherman

Zach Leatherman — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:23:35 +0000

I don’t see why they wouldn’t incorporate it, since it is introducing bugs in all versions of Internet Explorer. We’ll see how your report pans out. I’ve submitted a bug before to the Closure Compiler team and it was fixed right away.

By: ishtar

ishtar — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:29:30 +0000

Nice write-up. I wonder if your suggestion can be incorporated into the compiled code Google Closure compiler outputs. I noticed that the same solution (of not reassigning the argument variables) fixes the issue in IE for the problem that led me to post that ticket.