Setting objct literal property value via asynchronous callback.

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Published on 2010-12-23T20:17:14Z Indexed on 2010/12/23 20:54 UTC
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I'm creating a self-contained javascript utility object that detects advanced browser features. Ideally, my object would look something like this:

Support = {
    borderRadius : false, // values returned by functions
    gradient     : false, // i am defining 
    dataURI      : true
};

My current problem deals with some code I'm adapting from Weston Ruter's site which detects dataURI support. It attempts to use javascript to create an image with a dataURI source, and uses onload/onerror callbacks to check the width/height. Since onload is asynchronous, I lose my scope and returning true/false does not assign true/false to my object.

Here is my attempt:

Support = {
    ...
    dataURI : function(prop) {
        prop = prop; // keeps in closure for callback
        var data = new Image();
        data.onload = data.onerror = function(){
            if(this.width != 1 || this.height != 1) {
                that = false;
            }
            that = true;
        }
        data.src = "data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==";
        return -1;
    }(this)
};

I'm executing the anonymous function immediately, passing this (which I hoped was a reference to Support.dataURI), but unfortunately references the window object -- so the value is always -1. I can get it to work by using an externally defined function to assign the value after the Support object is created... but I don't think it's very clean that way. Is there a way for it to be self-contained? Can the object literal's function reference the property it's assigned to?

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