improving the biceps of getStyle(). Now if you pass it a null object, it will not die. r=cr5 (Closes #1051)

git-svn-id: http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers@7888 dc9f47b5-9b13-0410-9fdd-eb0c1a62fdaf

lib/OpenLayers/BaseTypes/Element.js

@@ -215,7 +215,10 @@ OpenLayers.Element = {
      */
     getStyle: function(element, style) {
         element = OpenLayers.Util.getElement(element);
-        var value = element.style[OpenLayers.String.camelize(style)];
+
+        var value = null;
+        if (element && element.style) {
+            value = element.style[OpenLayers.String.camelize(style)];
             if (!value) {
                 if (document.defaultView && 
                     document.defaultView.getComputedStyle) {
@@ -233,6 +236,7 @@ OpenLayers.Element = {
                 (OpenLayers.Element.getStyle(element, 'position') == 'static')) { 
                 value = 'auto';
             }
+        }
     
         return value == 'auto' ? null : value;
     }

lib/OpenLayers/Util.js

@@ -1066,12 +1066,7 @@ OpenLayers.Util.pagePosition = function(forElement) {
     while(element) {
 
         if(element == document.body) {
-            // FIXME: IE, when passed 'window' as the forElement, treats it as
-            // equal to document.body, but window.style fails, so getStyle
-            // fails, so we are paranoid and check this here. This check should
-            // probably move into element.getStyle in 2.6.
-            if(child && child.style && 
-               OpenLayers.Element.getStyle(child, 'position') == 'absolute') {
+            if(OpenLayers.Element.getStyle(child, 'position') == 'absolute') {
                 break;
             }
         }

tests/BaseTypes/Element.html

@@ -219,13 +219,14 @@
     }
 
     function test_Element_getStyle(t) {
-        t.plan(4);
+        t.plan(5);
 
     //tests for this function are not 100% complete... there is some funky
     // business going on in there with 
     //  * document.defaultView (moz/ff I believe)
     // but I cant seem to find a good way to test them.
     // 
+		t.ok(OpenLayers.Element.getStyle(null, null) == null, "passing null values in to getStyle() doesnt bomb, returns null");
 
         var elem = document.getElementById("elemID");
         elem.style.chickenHead = {}