[Edbrowse-dev] about compiling 3.5.1

[Kevin Carhart <kevin@carhart.net>]

Hi all

Wow, compiling the mozjs-24 has way more to it than in the past.  I'm 
finally trying to do this.  Lots of weird errors so far.  Has anyone 
had difficulties with the python requirements?  What do they need all of 
this python for?  Oh well.. I guess I was spoiled by using old versions 
for a long time.

If I want to try out things like parentNodes and 
attachEvent(), is 3.5.1 the earliest version where these are found?  In 
other words, I have to go to mozjs-24 to get these js features?  Or could 
I decouple these two things, give edbrowse a slightly older js but still 
be able to use the latest edbrowse?

I'm on a 32-bit CentOS.  I haven't been able to find mozjs-24 in package 
form, either from yum or hunting around the rpm search engines so I have 
to compile.  I don't really know how out of date I am.  Is 32-bit still OK 
or is it very ill-advised?  ... if you happen to know.

thank you!
Kevin




On Wed, 7 May 2014, Karl Dahlke wrote:

>> Hello - I am Kevin - I appreciate being able to lurk on the list
>
> Please continue to read and post, it is quite helpful,
> and perhaps you will join the development team if you find time.
>
> You may want to get and use 3.5.1,
> even though that is not an official version release yet.
> A lot of changes there; the required change of supporting mozjs 24, but also
> new features.
> One is attachEvent(), which you aluded to in your post.
> This is plain js, not jquery, but jquery may well use this feature
> to atttach events to actions.
> So pages that would attach a javascript function to a click or a load
> will now do something whereas they did nothing before.
>
> parentNode is also new;
> I try to connect each node to its parent when created.
> This is relevat to your description of the document tree,
> and yes web js uses and expects and even modifies this tree all over the place;
> we have to support it!
> If I am doing the parentnode properly, it would not be too hard
> to add in the reverse logic to build the child node links.
> Then write the functions to add new nodes
> into the tree dynamically.
> This is all moving forward, I think,
> in the right direction, but slowly,
> as it's just a couple of volunteers with some spare time.
> Let me know if you can get, build, and use the latest,
> and if you have further thoughts on design and development.
>
> Karl Dahlke
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