These days alot of javascript libraries are released in packed format which is pretty much javascript compressed with Dean Edwards’ packer. It seems this trend combined with automated packing ends up with broken libraries. One of the errors I troubleshooted the other day affected the download manager at jquery ui using packed as the compression method. What you end up with when trying to use the packed library is the following error.

missing ; before statement

This is caused by people not following a core requirement of the packer.

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Have you ever encountered this error in Firebug while using FF (Firefox)?

[Exception... "Component is not available" nsresult: "0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///usr/lib/firefox/components/nsSessionStore.js :: sss_saveState :: line 1753"  data: no] file:///usr/lib/firefox/components/nsSessionStore.js Line 1753

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Today for work I investigated the implementation of South Korean maps for one of our clients, unfortunately Google Maps doesn’t currently have street level details and view in South Korea. I ended up having to look at maps.naver.com which seems to be the only decent free korean mapping site available on the Internet with an API as well. Unfortunately for me, I did not understand korean, google translate was unable to help me with the site and there was no english translation available. After scanning through the API (in Korean), I managed to make out how implement the code but it was impossible to register without understanding the 10 step registration process in order to get an API key to use the maps . . . anyway here’s how I got it working without the API key!

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