jQuery(window).scroll(); causes IE* to scroll to 0,0

[rlrosario]

Triggering the scroll event on the window ('jQuery(window).scroll();') should be considered a special case because the window object has a scroll method that takes two parameters: x,y. On non-IE browsers, the call gets ignored when parameters aren't passed in. But on IE*, the call takes on 0,0 as a default and scrolls the page. This issue is preventing me from triggering scroll handlers this way because of the undesirable side effect.

I wrote a patch on github: ​http://github.com/rlr/jquery/commit/10966bb9b0c46c69697ebf4703b8ddc9906648f3

[rlrosario]

Any way to edit this bug? It really should be Version 1.4.2 Milestone 1.4.3 but that wasnt available when I submitted it?

[dmethvin]

This is the problem where we execute methods on things that are not .nodeType===1 DOM elements, such as window or plain Object. The solution is to not run those methods for such cases.

[john]

(This was confirmed during the bug triage meeting.)

[dmethvin]

Since this behavior may be desired (or at least currently used) for plain objects, I'm only planning to exclude window in the 1.7 patch.

[Dave Methvin]

Fix #6170. Don't try to run DOM methods on window.

Changeset: 6872d31f5a7d6162161b61bfd35ad0e8aa545395

[dmethvin]

#10355 is a duplicate of this ticket.