9 messages in com.canoo.lists.webtestRe: [Webtest] Canoo v1.6 build 544 (h...
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rxh...@regence.com13 Dec 2004 10:55 
Lisa Crispin13 Dec 2004 12:55 
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Lisa Crispin13 Dec 2004 15:04 
Paul King13 Dec 2004 16:14 
Marc Guillemot14 Dec 2004 01:33 
Paul King14 Dec 2004 05:30 
Marc Guillemot14 Dec 2004 05:39 
Paul King14 Dec 2004 07:06 
Subject:Re: [Webtest] Canoo v1.6 build 544 (httpunit 1.6) Javascript Support?
From:Marc Guillemot (mgui@yahoo.fr)
Date:12/14/2004 05:39:15 AM
List:com.canoo.lists.webtest

Concerning Date(), you're right: rhino complies to ECMA standard like
Mozilla/Firefox but not IE. But the DOM objects are the job of htmlunit not of rhino. There are probably more IE specific
objects/methods that are configured to work with rhino therefore I would rather say that the javascript support of htmlunit
is closer to IE than to Mozilla/Firefox.

Marc.

Paul King wrote:

Marc Guillemot wrote:

Paul King wrote:

... The JavaScript engine that webtest uses is closer to Mozilla/Firefox than IE. Does your page work in all browsers? Perhaps an explicit "return true" or "form.submit()" in your JavaScript might help.

what do you mean with closer to Mozilla/Firefox than IE?

HtmlUnit and HttpUnit both use the Rhino JS engine from Mozilla. Rhino has numerous differences compared with IE's JScript support. Most of the differences are at the DOM level and HtmlUnit does a better job of supporting those differences - at the moment it supplies a better set of browser specific host objects than HttpUnit but still not all of the "special" things that are in IE. There are also language differences in addition to DOM differences, for example:

Doing 'alert("Year is " + new Date().getYear())' in some JavaScript in webtest (HttpUnit or HtmlUnit versions) or Firefox or Mozilla yields "Year is 104". This is as per the ECMA script which by the way is not Y2K compliant - hence the strange result. IE produces "Year is 2004" - what you expect but not compliant. BTW: using getFullYear() is the ECMA function which is Y2K compliant - and luckily is supported by IE too!

For more details of the above and other examples, see:

http://nexgenmedia.net/evang/iemozguide/#javascript_differences

Other parts of the above page also detail some of the DOM and event differences between the browsers.

Cheers,

Paul.

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