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On 11/8/06, Jason Stafford < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ben and I have been having a discussion about Legals that he and I
feel
could benefit the whole community.
It started with this thread by rcyeager:
http://forum.openlaszlo.org/showthread.php?t=7654
Ben responded to that post, and then expanded on it in his blog:
http://sbshine.net/blog/2006/10/open-laszlo-3x-vs-open-laszlo-
legals.html
I responded to him privately at first, but have now posted my response
on that original thread:
http://forum.openlaszlo.org/showthread.php?p=25195#post25195
Feel free to chime in if you have something of value to add.
David Temkin responded here:
http://forum.openlaszlo.org/showthread.php?p=25200#post25200
And here is Henry Minsky's reply:
You're very right about the importance of unit testing, and that is
one of the high priority things we are working on..
We just finished fixing code to allow all the known automatic unit
tests to be run automatically
in real browsers for both swf and dhtml runtimes, as well as a
smaller but faster subset to run in the
rhino standalone javascript engine. That excercise turned up some
bugs of the
type you mentioned, where object creation happened in a non
deterministic order, leading to
some bugs or differences in swf and dhtml behavior. We also have a
tagging system to help
determine which tests provide coverage for which modules in the LFC.
I hope as the unit testing comes online and becomes part of every
nightly build and part of
every checkin, that the smoothness of porting swf apps to DHTML
runtime will become exponentially
easier.
