Re: [HtmlUnit] javascript and WATF

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

Hi Brian,

 > Have you considered utilizing rhino for your javascript support?

That is what I am using :-)

Rhino implements the core javascript language for me - the part that I 
have to implement are all the browser specific host objects.  Things 
like window, document, location etc.

 > Also have you seen the new WATF (Web Application Testing Framework)?

I heard about it for the first time a couple of days ago but haven't had 
a chance to look at it yet.

 > any idea of when full support will be available?

I expect that within the next couple of weeks, all of the most commonly 
used bits (excepting document.write() - see below) will be supported. 
 If there are specific methods/properties that you need that haven't 
been implemented then please open a feature request on sourceforge.   
The goal of 1.1 is to support the subset of host objects that are used 
by the majority of websites.  

It will likely be quite some time before EVERY javascript host object is 
fully supported but since most sites use a relatively small subset, this 
shouldn't be a problem.

Document.write() will likely not appear until 1.2 as I'm thinking it 
will require some significant changes to the way I load the documents. 
 Of course if enough people tell me that they can't live without this 
function then priorities will change ;-)

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