Handlebars dropdown list "selected" option does not work on IE8/9

[utsengar]

Steps to reproduce:

1. meteor create test
2. Copy test.js and test.html from: https://gist.github.com/4120133
3. Run: meteor

The dropdown "selected" option works fine on firefox and chrome. But does not work on IE8 or 9.

This has also been reported here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13465524/select-tag-default-selection-ignored-by-ie8-when-using-handlebars-with-meteor

[avital]

Could you please put this on a Github repository so that the instructions
read as follows?

1. git clone <...>
2. run meteor

Also could you explain precisely how to repro the issue - which browser to
use, what action to take, what is the observed behavior vs expected
behavior?

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Utkarsh Sengar
notifications@github.comwrote:

Steps to reproduce:

1. meteor create test
2. Copy test.js and test.html from: https://gist.github.com/4120133
3. Run: meteor

The dropdown "selected" option works fine on firefox and chrome. But does
not work on IE8 or 9.

This has also been reported here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13465524/select-tag-default-selection-ignored-by-ie8-when-using-handlebars-with-meteor

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[utsengar]

Setup

1. git clone https://github.com/utkarsh2012/meteor-dd-bug.git
2. meteor
3. Go to: http://localhost:3000

Expected

As the page loads, the default option in the dropdown should be: "File not found" (because of the handlerbar helper in test.js: line 6 and 10

Observed

On Firefox 16 and chrome, it works fine: http://i.imgur.com/czHJI.png
On IE8 and 9, the default option is "Yay" and the handlerbar helper logic is ignored: http://i.imgur.com/zxbZI.png

[avital]

Thanks for the quick response! We'll investigate this but since we are
around Thanksgiving now it may take a bit longer than usual.

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Utkarsh Sengar
notifications@github.comwrote:

Setup

1. git clone https://github.com/utkarsh2012/meteor-dd-bug.git
2. meteor
3. Go to: http://localhost:3000

Expected

As the page loads, the default option in the dropdown should be: "File not
found" (because of the handlerbar helper in test.js: line 6 and 10
Observed

On Firefox 16 and chrome, it works fine: http://imgur.com/czHJI
On IE8 and 9, the default option is "Yay" and the handlerbar helper logic
is ignored: http://imgur.com/zxbZI

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[glasser]

This is fixed on the spark-original-value branch. Hopefully will land on devel Friday or Monday.