Sitepatching updates

If the new Hotmail / Outlook.com site doesn't work for you, check if the browser.js documentation page says browser.js is active and dated August 3rd or later. If you don't have the August 3rd file, try to choose "Help / Check for updates" and re-load or wait a day or two and let Opera update browser.js automatically.

Microsoft seems to be rolling out a Hotmail update, more or less merging Hotmail and the Outlook-like UI from outlook.com. Are they planning to brand it "Hotlook" now, by any chance?

As usual, there are both Opera and Hotmail bugs that cause problems.

Microsoft is using some JS generator that tends to put a lot of stuff inside the brackets of for() and if() statements. Like this, for example:

for(u.handler&&(y=u,u=y.handler,e=y.selector),u.guid||(u.guid=i.guid++),a=v.events,a||(v.events=a={}),h=v.handle,h||(v.handle=h=function(n){return typeof i!="undefined"&&(!n||i.event.triggered!==n.type)?i.event.dispatch.apply(h.elem,arguments):t},h.elem=n),r=i.trim(wt(r)).split(" "),w=0;w<r.length;w++)

The most interesting issue is an Opera bug that makes compilation fail for code like this:

for( a, (bar in baz); a<b; a++)

Actually, the ECMAScript spec is pretty clear that the 'in' keyword isn't allowed in a for(a;b;c)-type loop, so when our developers first saw this problem they thought throwing was the right thing to do. However, a close reading of the spec shows that the parenthesizes makes it non-ambiguous and valid. This was fixed in core a while ago - unfortunately not early enough to get into a desktop release before the "Hotlook" rollout..

There is also some confusion regarding event.button for mouse events. I don't understand the full details there, I just realised that tweaking the existing patch that made drag-and-drop work in the old Hotmail now makes all the buttons and toolbars work in the new one.

Added patches

• PATCH-766, Make mouse scrolling work in Zoho spreadsheets (sheet.zoho.com)
• PATCH-767, Avoid number truncation bug on Grooveshark (grooveshark.com)
• PATCH-770, Fix minified jQuery on Hotmail (mail.live.com)
• PATCH-769, Opera throws when XSL variable has disable-output-escaping attribute, breaks sorting on staples.com (staples.com)
• PATCH-762, Credit Suisse second-guesses GMaps GBrowserIsCompatible, adds extra Opera blocking (credit-suisse.com)
• PATCH-751, Work around cached value bug that makes JSON.stringify() remove one digit from input (facebook.com)
• PATCH-756, wikisky.org - Fix mouse controls (wikisky.org)

Changed patches

• CORE-17444, Fix drag and drop in Hotmail (mail.live.com)

Update: bugs have been fixed, new version is live.
Changelog for update:
staples.com fix no longer throws if accessing the responseXML of an Ajax request with a non-XML response
Fixed hostname.endsWith method to not return true for all domain names one character longer than what you're looking for..