On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:30:21PM -0700, Kevin Carhart wrote:
> 
> >Are there other bugs we need to fix, small enhancements we need to make?
> >In particular, (Kevin), are we miles away from jQuery,
> >wherein that should wait for 3.6.1, or would a few more small changes get us 
> >there?
> 
> The recent progress is significant, but I don't think it's going to be ready
> for 3.6.0.  Here's a crude gauge.  We're working through this javascript
> routine called jQuery.support, where they have bundled together a long
> series of tests of different mandatory behaviors.  And it tries them one
> after the next.  We've done several.  I'm currently working on a method
> called cloneNode, which roughly speaking is found at around line 75 of 232
> lines.  So I think our recent good work is about 33% of the way through the
> supports routine!  However, it could be even further than that, because when
> I scan lower, I notice a lot of use of the big node manipulations which are
> already done thanks to Karl. There's also empty space and comments, so it's
> not like the remaining 150 lines is dense with tricky DOM problems.
> 
> So it's coming, but it's a little more than a few small changes, I think.

Excellent, thanks for doing this work.

> By the way, recently I spent a few days learning the codebase better and
> tracing C calls from place to place.  I had hopped around in an episodic
> way, but hadn't gotten the big picture.  So now that I got to know the
> jseng-moz.cpp, readMessage, writeMessage, and the EJ_ commands, I like it!
> Thank you for writing this, Karl, Adam & Chris.

Karl and Chris have to take the credit for this setup.

Given that we can't release until a tidy5 package,
I say we continue fixing things and then do the bug fix phase at that point.
I guess I'm really hoping for some sort of jquery support by that stage.

Cheers,
Adam.

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