[Greasemonkey] FF1.5b, Gm0.6.x, new Option(String) fails?

[Matthias Bauer]

On 19.10.2005 18:48 Jeremy Dunck wrote:

>>> the following code:
>>>
>>>   var o = new Option('foo');
(and also a simple 'var o = new Option()')

> Strange.  This is not speced anywhere, right?  Just de facto standard?

DevGuru[1] and sun.com[2], among some other web sources[3], give the
constructor as:

  new Option([text[, value[, defaultSelected[, selected]]]])

> Works OK in 1.0.7.
> 
> Additional data points: new unsafeWindow.Option() also does not work.

It also works from the JavaScript Shell, the location bar, and 'normal'
sites (both HTML and XHTML). I'm guessing it has something to do with
the sandboxing?

-Matt

References:
1: http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/ecmascript/quickref/option.html
2: http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6408-10/option.htm
3: google javascript option constructor