On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 04:02:09PM -0400, Karl Dahlke wrote:
> I fear we have reached a point in edbrowse where all the low hanging fruit 
> has been plucked.
> I have several sites that "don't work", yet evoke no js errors as they run.
> That means all the javascript executes, but doesn't do everything it is 
> suppose to, or does something slightly wrong, or lacks a connection to our 
> nodes in the edbrowse world, or some such.
> Some of these sites have 20 js files, some have 50,000 lines of js code.
> Most of the js is minimized, and even if you deminimize it, it still has 
> gross one letter variables and no comments, and no way to know what it is 
> suppose to do,
> as compared to what it does in edbrowse, and where the paths diverge.

Agreed.  Unfortunately most of the time I find something that doesn't work
it's part of some incredibly complicated code and there's no easy way to find
the breakage.

> We can only hope to run into some simpler websites that don't work, I call 
> these middle hanging fruit,
> and maybe we can find and fix a problem, and that will fix the other site 
> over there, where the fruit is way up high.
> Other than that, I don't know what to do.
> 
> Another approach is to plow through the 100 acid tests, which is where we 
> started almost a year ago.
> The js is clear and readable, although there is a lot of it, and maybe the 
> time has come for that.

Yeah, I suspect we're approaching that point.  That and also going through some
of the DOM spec and comparing with what we have and probably coming up with a
roadmap to fill in gaps.

As always I wish I had more time to help with this.

Cheers,
Adam.

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