On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 10:08:23 +0100 Daniel Silverstone wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 21:04:20 +0100, Dave Higton wrote: >> I see you created a development branch for NS with Duktape. Are the >> CI builds from that branch yet, or will that have to wait until the >> 200 classes and 1500 methods and properties are (completely|largely) >> implemented? > > Since the developer weekend, Vincent has been slaving away to rebuild the > automation and code generation (nsgenbind) to use duktape. My > expectation > is that during August Vincent's work will reach the point that we can > all pitch in to produce enough of the bindings to reach parity with the > older > JSAPI binding. At that point we'll likely switch to duktape, but not > before > since we don't want to have a feature regression on master if possible. > > Once that work is in place, we'll gladly receive patches to increase our > coverage of the DOM. A lot of the work is just slightly too hard to > automate > but can be fairly easily cranked out by a human once everything is in > place. > > If you[*] are interested in helping with this then you should start by > becoming familiar with the layout and the navigation of: > > http://dom.spec.whatwg.org/ > http://html.spec.whatwg.org/ > > And you may find it helps to get a basic feel for duktape: > > http://duktape.org/guide.html > http://duktape.org/api.html > > Also, obviously, having a vague understanding of the layout of the > NetSurf > repositories will help you. Particularly a feel for NetSurf's > browser_window > functionality and also libdom. > > http://git.netsurf-browser.org/netsurf.git/tree/desktop/browser.h > http://git.netsurf-browser.org/libdom.git/tree/include/dom > > This is, surprisingly, a fairly good way to get into working on NetSurf > since > once you can build NetSurf, adding functionality to the JavaScript > implementation should be one of the more easy to get into ways to hack on > the > project. > > I hope all that helps you understand, Dave, and encourages at least one > of the > readers of this mailing list to contribute either before the duktape > merge or > after it :-) > > Thanks > > Daniel. > > > [*]: Dave Highton, or *anyone* reading this message
Thank you for your comprehensive reply, Daniel. I'm not sure it will be me, because I am still trying to get to grips with USB, and then some debugging of MTP, and then Bluetooth over USB. OTOH, I'm not sure that I will ever really get to grips with Bluetooth sufficiently to make it work. Dave PS Please note the spelling of my surname. ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER - Watch dolphins, sharks & orcas on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/marineaquarium
