Jon Sykes has discovered a bizarre bug in Internet Explorer 7 (and presumably IE6 as there is next to no difference in the JScript engines). You probably wouldn’t encounter this bug very often but if you did it would really make you pull out your hair trying to debug.
There is a bug in IE7 where by a line of code inside a conditional statement that NEVER runs, can cause an object that is set with a fairly standard object declaration to be whipped. Even weirder is that it will have whipped the code even if you put a debug alert of the object before the code that does the whipping. Confused? I know I am.
Thankfully it does look fairly simple to work _around_ and avoid. But it’s probably a debug nightmare, and it’s a bug I couldn’t find referenced anywhere, so I figured it was worth sharing.
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