Rails spinoffs - Oct 2005 - minimal browser requirements for scriptaculous

Hi,

I noticed that the scriptaculous shopping cart demo doesn''t work in
safari 1.03.

I was wondering if there was documentation somewhere that would tell me
what my minimal browser requirements were for running scriptaculous?

I found this comparative analysis on the web:

http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/AjaxLibraries

but I think it might be a bit out of date.

I did find this on the scriptaculous site, stated as a design goal:

Transparent compatibility with all major browsers that feature support
for Web 2.0 technology. As of now, following browsers are supported:
Firefox 1.0 (and most other Gecko-engine based browsers), Internet
Explorer 6 and Safari.

http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/DesignGoals

but no versions are mentioned for Safari?

Is more precise information available? It would be great to have a
matrix with browser versions along one axis and scriptaculous features
along the other axis, so when I was considering using a feature I could
work out how much of my user base could actually use it.

Many thanks.

CHEERS> SAM

It would be cool to have Safari 1.X support, but
I don''t have Safari 1.X to test with. :)

If you can give it more tests (like trying out the functional test  
files),
and give some reports on that maybe someone on the list with access to
Safari 1 can help working out any bugs?

Thomas

Am 01.10.2005 um 07:21 schrieb Sam Joseph:
>
> but no versions are mentioned for Safari?
>
> Is more precise information available? It would be great to have a
> matrix with browser versions along one axis and scriptaculous features
> along the other axis, so when I was considering using a feature I  
> could
> work out how much of my user base could actually use it.

* Thomas Fuchs <thomas@fesch.at> [2005-10-01 04:22]:
> It would be cool to have Safari 1.X support, but
> I don''t have Safari 1.X to test with. :)
> If you can give it more tests (like trying out the functional test
> files), and give some reports on that maybe someone on the list
> with access to
> Safari 1 can help working out any bugs?
    v 1.3 right here!

--
Alan Gutierrez - alan@engrm.com - http://engrm.com/blogometer/

Hi Thomas,

I have safari 1.0.3

I would be happy to try out the functional test files - can you let me 
know where to find them?

A relevant note is that Googlemaps lists minimal support browsers:

http://www.google.com/help/faq_maps.html#browser

    *  IE 5.5+ (download: Windows)
    * Firefox 0.8+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)
    * Safari 1.2.4+ (download: Mac)
    * Netscape 7.1+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)
    * Mozilla 1.4+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)
    * Opera 7+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)

Would be great to have something similar in scriptaculous, and even a 
script to do browser detection for pages that won''t be supported such 
that a message like the above gets displayed rather than just failing as 
things do at present.

Many thanks.
CHEERS> SAM


Thomas Fuchs wrote:
> It would be cool to have Safari 1.X support, but
> I don''t have Safari 1.X to test with. :)
>
> If you can give it more tests (like trying out the functional test  
> files),
> and give some reports on that maybe someone on the list with access to
> Safari 1 can help working out any bugs?
>
> Thomas
>
> Am 01.10.2005 um 07:21 schrieb Sam Joseph:
>
>>
>> but no versions are mentioned for Safari?
>>
>> Is more precise information available? It would be great to have a
>> matrix with browser versions along one axis and scriptaculous features
>> along the other axis, so when I was considering using a feature I 
could
>> work out how much of my user base could actually use it.
>
>
>
>

Heya!

Am 04.10.2005 um 07:05 schrieb Sam Joseph:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> I have safari 1.0.3
> I would be happy to try out the functional test files - can you let  
> me know where to find them?
Download the SVN trunk. See the instructions here:
http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Versions

The test files are also included in the 1.5_rc1 download on
http://script.aculo.us/downloads

Note that the SVN trunk already fixes quite few newly discovered bugs,
and I strongly recommend using it to avoid duplicate bug reports,
for changes see:
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/file/spinoffs/scriptaculous/CHANGELOG

The test files are in the test directory. :)

Thomas

Thomas, I''m on Safari 2. Do you need results of the tests sent back  
to you for that? A lot of them fail right now (I''m on HEAD, from  
yesterday).

Jamie


On Oct 1, 2005, at 4:21 AM, Thomas Fuchs wrote:
> It would be cool to have Safari 1.X support, but
> I don''t have Safari 1.X to test with. :)
>
> If you can give it more tests (like trying out the functional test  
> files),
> and give some reports on that maybe someone on the list with access to
> Safari 1 can help working out any bugs?
>
> Thomas
>
> Am 01.10.2005 um 07:21 schrieb Sam Joseph:
>
>
>>
>> but no versions are mentioned for Safari?
>>
>> Is more precise information available? It would be great to have a
>> matrix with browser versions along one axis and scriptaculous  
>> features
>> along the other axis, so when I was considering using a feature I  
>> could
>> work out how much of my user base could actually use it.
>>
>
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Heya,

The unit tests are supposed to fully work on Firefox 1.0.4 only.
This is because all other browsers have bugs that prevent unit testing
from fully working :P

So, the most important thing is that the functional tests are behaving
the same on each browser (Reference is Firefox 1.0.4).

Where possible I''ve added messages on the failing tests to explain
that,
but some stuff is missing.

Personally, I test with Safari 2, Firefox 1.04, 1.07 and 1.5b1, and  
IE 6,
so I don''t need results from these browsers (except for
''real'' bugs,
that is) :)

Thomas

Am 04.10.2005 um 15:46 schrieb Jamie Orchard-Hays:
> Thomas, I''m on Safari 2. Do you need results of the tests sent
back
> to you for that? A lot of them fail right now (I''m on HEAD, from  
> yesterday).
>
> Jamie
>

Great. Thanks for the info.

Jamie


On Oct 4, 2005, at 11:29 AM, Thomas Fuchs wrote:
> Heya,
>
> The unit tests are supposed to fully work on Firefox 1.0.4 only.
> This is because all other browsers have bugs that prevent unit testing
> from fully working :P
>
> So, the most important thing is that the functional tests are behaving
> the same on each browser (Reference is Firefox 1.0.4).
>
> Where possible I''ve added messages on the failing tests to explain
> that,
> but some stuff is missing.
>
> Personally, I test with Safari 2, Firefox 1.04, 1.07 and 1.5b1, and  
> IE 6,
> so I don''t need results from these browsers (except for
''real''
> bugs, that is) :)
>
> Thomas
>
> Am 04.10.2005 um 15:46 schrieb Jamie Orchard-Hays:
>
>
>> Thomas, I''m on Safari 2. Do you need results of the tests sent
>> back to you for that? A lot of them fail right now (I''m on
HEAD,
>> from yesterday).
>>
>> Jamie
>>
>>
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