On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 21:04:20 +0100, Dave Higton wrote: > I see you created a development branch for NS with Duktape. Are the > CI builds from that branch yet, or will that have to wait until the > 200 classes and 1500 methods and properties are (completely|largely) > implemented?
Since the developer weekend, Vincent has been slaving away to rebuild the automation and code generation (nsgenbind) to use duktape. My expectation is that during August Vincent's work will reach the point that we can all pitch in to produce enough of the bindings to reach parity with the older JSAPI binding. At that point we'll likely switch to duktape, but not before since we don't want to have a feature regression on master if possible. Once that work is in place, we'll gladly receive patches to increase our coverage of the DOM. A lot of the work is just slightly too hard to automate but can be fairly easily cranked out by a human once everything is in place. If you[*] are interested in helping with this then you should start by becoming familiar with the layout and the navigation of: http://dom.spec.whatwg.org/ http://html.spec.whatwg.org/ And you may find it helps to get a basic feel for duktape: http://duktape.org/guide.html http://duktape.org/api.html Also, obviously, having a vague understanding of the layout of the NetSurf repositories will help you. Particularly a feel for NetSurf's browser_window functionality and also libdom. http://git.netsurf-browser.org/netsurf.git/tree/desktop/browser.h http://git.netsurf-browser.org/libdom.git/tree/include/dom This is, surprisingly, a fairly good way to get into working on NetSurf since once you can build NetSurf, adding functionality to the JavaScript implementation should be one of the more easy to get into ways to hack on the project. I hope all that helps you understand, Dave, and encourages at least one of the readers of this mailing list to contribute either before the duktape merge or after it :-) Thanks Daniel. [*]: Dave Highton, or *anyone* reading this message -- Daniel Silverstone http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ PGP mail accepted and encouraged. Key Id: 3CCE BABE 206C 3B69
