new Function not allowed after page load in Adobe AIR

[dmethvin]

​http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_frm/thread/3f6c8b8e20627861

I think

                                        if ( window.JSON && window.JSON.parse ) {
                                                data = window.JSON.parse( data );

                                        } else {
                                                data = window["eval"]("(" + data + ")");
                                        }

is better than

                                        if ( window.JSON && window.JSON.parse ) {
                                                data = window.JSON.parse( data );

                                        } else {
                                                data = (new Function("return " + data))();
                                        }

because "new Function()" is not allow after page loaded.

from AIR doc) :

Function constructor Calls to new Function(param, body) can be replaced with an inline function declaration or used only before the page load event has been handled.

[dmethvin]

Instead of giving up on new Function perhaps we could just have AIR users define window.JSON? Or define our own jQuery.JSON and use that if window.JSON isn't there, with a default implementation using new Function. Is there a way to feature-detect AIR?

[addyosmani]

Closing as AIR users have a common workaround specifically mentioned in their docs for this. Also there has been no response from the original submitter to questions asked in this ticket 9 months ago (and we've had two releases since). Please feel free to re-open if further information is available or the releases we rolled out do not fix this issue.