Works in Firefox but not Chrome....

[INF1949]

After reading your SPA book I was inspired to use your subscribe/publish extension in my own simple program. It works splendidly in Firefox but published events appear to be ignored in Chrome (most current version). This occurs -- or more accurately doesn't occur -- in Chrome on both my PC and Android phone. (Firefox behaves as expected on both OS's.) And it only works some of the time (????) in IE11. Could the problem be that the event is registered against a jQuery collection within an iframe?

[mmikowski]

Hi INF:

gevent has been tested in IE9+, Firefox 12+, and Chrome 10+. That doesn't mean it works everywhere of course. However, I am using it for a current project using the latest Chrome (v41) and jQuery (2.1.3) and it works flawlessly. My guess is it may be the way you are using it. If you want to subscribe to an event but don't that subscription tied to an element, bind it instead to the body. Here is an example from my current project:

// Publish
$.gevent.publish( 'set_mode', {
  mode_str      : 'add',
  hi_score_list : hi_score_list,
  hi_score_idx  : hi_score_idx
}); 

// Subscribe
$.gevent.subscribe( $body, '_set_mode_',  onSetMode )

If you continue to have difficulty, please me a means to reproduce the issue - the easier the better. Like "use crossbrowsertesting.com to access this page using IE11 on Windows 8.1", where this page is your page illustrating the problem. I would certainly be glad to ensure that gevent continues to work across all modern browsers :)

[INF1949]

You're right, my problem isn't caused by gevent which, after stepping through the code in Chrome/debugging, I've been able to verify works just fine. I'll have to look elsewhere to figure out the bug.

[mmikowski]

Cool. Thanks for confirming.

My guess is you are seeing x-browser vageries. Try to use jQuery utilities to normalize as much as possible. Avoid underscore utilities in favor of jQuery utilities (I stopped using underscore because it is generally slower and less correct than jQuery, and the overlap is ~90% - not worth it!)