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March 31, 2000 The parseInt Behavior Difference Tips: March 2000
Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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The function parseInt() behaves differently in Netscape Navigator than in Internet Explorer. If you try to compute parseInt() of numbers between 0 and 1, you will get 0 in Internet Explorer and NaN (not a number) in Netscape Navigator. The line alert(parseInt(0.1)) yields the following alert box in Netscape Navigator:
Learn more about this difference and how to handle it in Column 60, Consistent Random Numbers.
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