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[HtmlUnit] Java applets

[Mabel C. <mc...@ya...>]

In a previous email, I asked about navigator.javaEnabled() and Mike had
stubbed a method for it, always returning false because java support is
not enabled for HtmlUnit.

So I assume there is no support for document.applets[]?  My web
application uses a lot of javascript (as you might have guessed by all
the requests) and a hidden applet to get server information.  Right now
I can't get very far with using HtmlUnit without applet support.  Will
applets be supported in the near future?   Open a feature request?



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Re: [HtmlUnit] Java applets

[Mike B. <mb...@Ga...>]

Mabel Chow wrote:
> So I assume there is no support for document.applets[]?

Right.

> My web
> application uses a lot of javascript (as you might have guessed by all
> the requests) and a hidden applet to get server information.  Right now
> I can't get very far with using HtmlUnit without applet support.  Will
> applets be supported in the near future?   Open a feature request?

Adding support for document.applets wouldn't be much work - actually 
supporting applets would be.  Certainly not impossible but it would be a 
fair bit of work.

Opening a feature request is always the best solution but unless someone 
else steps up to help, I doubt there will be applet support for quite 
some time.  JavaScript support still needs a lot of work and that seems 
to be what most people are needing.  There are also some other features 
that I personally need which will get my attention first.

I know this isn't what you wanted to hear but I only have so much spare 
time to work on this. :-)

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Re: [HtmlUnit] Java applets

[Mabel C. <mc...@ya...>]

--- Mike Bowler <mb...@Ga...> wrote:
> Adding support for document.applets wouldn't be much work - actually 
> supporting applets would be.  Certainly not impossible but it would
> be a 
> fair bit of work.

So this would mean that you can support the following statement:
var appletObj = document.applets["My Applet"];

But not easily support the following statement because it would mean
supporting applets:
var encodedStr = appletObj.encode("some string");


> I know this isn't what you wanted to hear but I only have so much
> spare 
> time to work on this. :-)
Sigh...ok. :-)  I'm looking for a web browser testing tool that can be
used on UNIX platforms that isn't expensive.  Something like XRunner is
expensive.  Guess it's back to manual testing for now. :-0


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Re: [HtmlUnit] Java applets

[Mike B. <mb...@Ga...>]

Mabel Chow wrote:
> So this would mean that you can support the following statement:
> var appletObj = document.applets["My Applet"];
> 
> But not easily support the following statement because it would mean
> supporting applets:
> var encodedStr = appletObj.encode("some string");

Pretty much.  Little things are certainly possible but full applet 
support is not a little thing :-)



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Principal, Gargoyle Software Inc.
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Fax  : (416) 822-0975 | Website: http://www.GargoyleSoftware.com