Laurent Jouanneau Reporter
	Description • 12 years ago

In the web console, we can retrieve values of variable created in the content document. We can even modify them. But it doesn't really modify the variable IN the content document. It seems it modify only a copy of this variable.

Steps to reproduce:

1. open the URL. it is a page where a foo variable is set with the value "ok". A function show() return the value of this variable
2. open the web console
3. type:  foo
4. the console show "ok"
5. type: show()
4. the console show "ok"
6. type: foo="bar"
7. the console show "bar"
8. type: show()
9. the console show "ok"

Expected result: the last show() call should return "bar" instead of "ok".

It's an annoying bug when we want to debug a webpage...

	Cork
	Comment 1 • 12 years ago

I can reproduce on data-uri's, but this testcase works fine for me.

Data-uris has extra restrictions on them now days, your sure that's not what your seeing?

	Mihai Sucan [:msucan]
	Comment 2 • 12 years ago

Laurent: thanks for the bug report.

This is a duplicate of bug 690529, which will be fixed by bug 783499.

	Mihai Sucan [:msucan]
	Comment 3 • 12 years ago

Work around: you can do |window.foo = 'bar'| and it will work as intended.

	Laurent Jouanneau Reporter
	Comment 4 • 12 years ago

Thanks Mihai. I discovered the workaround later after submitting the bug. Although it works, it is not intuitive IMHO :-)

Cork: No, the issue is also with real document. And I have also the same issue within a project I'm working on, that uses a sandbox in the same way as the Web Console.