Is FF3.5 on the plan as well?  Safari 4?  Opera 10?  Chrome?  Are there
guidelines on when a browser version gets its own axis (i.e. HTML5 support)
or is it just when it feels appropriate or there are significant changes?

Shouldn't then we refactor the other browsers as well to be named after the
layout engines (i.e. DOMImplGecko with DOMImplMozilla or DOMImplFirefox as
specific subclasses, or DOMImplWebkit with DOMImplSafari and/or
DOMImplChrome).

Also, I'm still trying to find a good list of supported browser versions for
browsers other than IE.  Is FF really supported all the way back to FF 0.9?
Probably not since I was told that MozillaImplOld is should disappear with
2.0, meaning presumably gecko 1.8 & earlier browsers will become
unsupported.  What about Safari & Opera.

On a side note, the number of permutations is especially important as a
developer-facing issue because time & time again on the mailing list it
comes up with people complaining about the compile time because that's how
they think they should be developing (instead of using hosted mode for
development or limiting to a specific configuration to fix a
browser-specific problem).

Adding more documentation doesn't seem to help because that doesn't seem to
be read thoroughly - this seems to be more from the jump in with both feet &
hack till it works crowd (not that there's anything wrong with that approach
:D).

Maybe have the compiler print a warning with a reference to the
documentation indicating it's not a good workflow to compile for development
if the last successfully compiled code was like in the last 5 hours.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:31 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Reviewers: jlabanca,
>
> Description:
> This monster of a patch adds what I believe to be full support for IE8.
>
> Review strategy to make your life easier:
> - All the .gwt.xml files, with the exception of DOM and History just add
> ie8 to the existing ie6 cases.
> - The giant diff around both DOMImpl's stems from the fact that in both
> cases I renamed DOMImplIE6 to DOMImplTrident (Trident is IE's rendering
> engine), and created IE6 and IE8 subclasses. The IE8 subclasses are
> currently empty, and I pushed down a few IE6/7-only method
> implementations into the DOMImplIE6's.
> - I would save the HistoryImpl changes for last. IE8 implements the
> HTML5 standard "onhashchange" event, which is going to be the proper way
> forward on new browsers, so I refactored the implementation such that
> HistoryImpl uses that.
>   - I also ditched the no-longer-supported Safari 2 history
> implementation and collapsed the HistoryImplFrame/Safari/IE6 into a
> single HistoryImplIE6.
>   - I added a new HistoryImplTimer which uses a timer to simulate the
> "onhashchange" event (this isn't actually a change, just a slight
> refactoring -- the Mozilla and Safari implementations have always worked
> this way).
>
> Also see this document for some more detail:
>   http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/wiki/IE8Support
>
> Please review this at http://gwt-code-reviews.appspot.com/29803
>
> Affected files:
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/dom/DOM.gwt.xml
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/dom/client/DOMImplIE6.java
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/dom/client/DOMImplIE8.java
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/dom/client/DOMImplTrident.java
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/ClippedImage.gwt.xml
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/DOM.gwt.xml
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/Focus.gwt.xml
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/Form.gwt.xml
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/History.gwt.xml
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/Hyperlink.gwt.xml
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/Popup.gwt.xml
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/RichText.gwt.xml
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/SplitPanel.gwt.xml
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/TextBox.gwt.xml
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/Tree.gwt.xml
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/UserAgent.gwt.xml
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/Window.gwt.xml
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/client/impl/DOMImplIE6.java
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/client/impl/DOMImplIE8.java
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/client/impl/DOMImplTrident.java
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/client/impl/HistoryImpl.java
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/client/impl/HistoryImplFrame.java
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/client/impl/HistoryImplIE6.java
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/client/impl/HistoryImplMozilla.java
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/client/impl/HistoryImplSafari.java
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/client/impl/HistoryImplStandard.java
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/user/client/impl/HistoryImplTimer.java
>   user/src/com/google/gwt/xml/XML.gwt.xml
>   user/super/com/google/gwt/emul/EmulationWithUserAgent.gwt.xml
>
>
>
> >
>

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