“Javascript made me feel like a IDIOT”

Today I was doing some javascript checks so that my regular price remains
always greater than the discounted price .

I check with normal arithmetic functions “==,<,>” to the $(“field_name”).value
and thought it has worked because that what was taught to me in my schools
that value 1 > value 2 returns true/false.

But all my prettiest school teachers were proven wrong by javascript.

I realized after releasing the code that
11> 10 => true
99.99 > 99.98 => true
212 > 212.21 => false

but they were also checking the number of digits.
So when I gave

10 > 9 => false(It failed) …hmm even I had the same reaction!!!!

Man , what the S**T cum on how can this happen , then I thought
bro need to check javascripts arithmetic handlers once again ,
over there I came accross parseFloat and other functions.

check the link for more details

For the next two days I shall be wearing the “I was wrong ” Tshirt….

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