On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 04:04:15AM +0000, Karl Dahlke wrote:
> In js you can call new Window(url) to bring up a new window,
> a new web page; then use the back key to go back to the first window.
> But there is also the native method window.open(url)
> which does exactly the same thing.
> I had native functions in jsdom.cpp to do both these,
> and I really dislike redundant code.

Yeah, i didn't know about the new window syntax.

> Isn't there some way to convert open into new Window?
> There is, but I had to google around to find it.
> Answer on stackoverflow.com, they have a lot of answers over there.

Agreed, I've spent much of my life over the last few years looking at
stackoverflow.com answers.

> So I got rid of the native code window.open() in jsdom.cpp and put this
> in startwindow.js.
> 
> function open() {
> return Window.apply(this, arguments);
> }
> 
> You can't use the new Window syntax here, no way to make that work,
> but fortunately calling Window is the same as calling new Window,
> or any class/constructor for that matter,
> and if you do it this way you can apply the arguments of the calling function.
> So open(), which can have from 1 to 3 arguments,
> those are just passed through to the constructor.
> Pretty cool eh?
> I mean I didn't know js could do that.

It certainly looks useful.

> Here's something even cooler.
> When I do it this way the assert goes away.
> No, I don't really know why.
> I guess it didn't have anything to do with global flags,
> as I wrote in my last email.

That's a bit odd.

> Perhaps the problem was the way I was mapping open() over to the constructor in C,
> using the spider API.
> It was messy and hairy, and hard to get right.

Yeah, it certainly looks that way, but I'd like to know what was wrong.

> This reaffirms my theme of putting as much as possible into startwindow.js.
> It's much less code here, easier to read and maintain,
> less potential for bugs, and independent of the js api.
> Even if we switch js engines some day, we won't have to change startwindow.js.

Well, hopefully we won't as long as we stick to standard ECMA script.

> So now I can go to BankOfAmerica.com and click on
> {Where do I enter my Passcode?}
> and it works.
> The more I play with edbrowse, the more problems I find and fix.

Yeah, it's hard to test everything, particularly where js is concerned.
On the subject of testing is there full window coverage in jsrt?

Cheers,
Adam.