Error in IE11 with browser version of citation-js

[ghost]

Hi,

when using the latest unminified version of citation-js (Version 0.3.4.) for the browser** I get the following error in the Internet Explorer 11 which halts the script execution.

SCRIPT1004: ';' expected
File: citation-0.3.4.js, Line: 14582, Row: 25

I suspect it has something to do with for statements of the following kind:

for (var [varName] of ...) { ... }

The error occurs also in the official browser demo, however, I don't know which version of citation-js is used there.

** Source: https://github.com/larsgw/citation.js/tree/archive/citation.js

[larsgw]

Thanks for the report, I can reproduce it. It seems that the building tools don't target IE11 like they're supposed to. I'll look into it.

I update the browser demo once in a while, and currently it's using v0.3.4. The version can be looked up with Cite.version.cite in the console, assuming Cite is available.

[larsgw]

Nevermind, the reason seems to be that citeproc-js gets ignored, because the file is too big for babel for regular parsing and the abnormal parsing caused other errors (and I thought it had sufficient browser support anyway). I'll look into other ways to solve that issue, which should solve this one.

[ghost]

Thanks for the quick response. Did you already try another nextGen JS compiler like traceur?

If not let me know and I could give it a try.

[larsgw]

It now works for me in babel (see the debugging process in #89). The fixes will be released in the next version (hopefully this week, otherwise in two weeks, as I can't do anything next week).

The next version changes a lot of @access protected APIs such as Cite.parse.input.chain() and basically any Cite.parse.*() function. If you use those, I'm glad to help with migrating (if necessary).

[apurde]

Any update here? This bug currently prevents me from using it in my project.

[larsgw]

Sorry, I'll try to release as soon as I can.

[larsgw]

I'm having some trouble with browserify/babelify (not sure what's the problem) compiling the test suite, so I don't think I can release right now, but here's the regular build files (v0.3.4). (I haven't been able to test them myself in IE yet)

[apurde]

Wow! That was fast. The provided version works on IE 11. Thank you so much.
Andreas

[larsgw]

I just saw https://bundle.run which seems pretty cool (it somehow automatically has a bundled version ready), so https://bundle.run/citation-js@0.3.4 provides a bundled script that defines citationJs globally - I'm not sure about browser compatibility, as I can't test IE right now, but if it does, cool!

[larsgw]

I think I finally got things back under control. Does the demo (https://citation.js.org/demo/) and/or the tests (https://citation.js.org/test/) work for you? If they do, they're updated to the newest version (0.4.0-1), so you can download them from there (citation.js, citation.min.js). I'll update the archive soon as well.

Edit: It seems there are still some issues, I'm looking into them now.

Edit 2: Should work now. Updating archive shortly.