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Norris Boyd  
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 More options Apr 8, 9:26 am
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.tech.js-engine.rhino
From: Norris Boyd <norrisb...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 06:26:22 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Tues, Apr 8 2008 9:26 am
Subject: Re: Rhino "fork": htmlunit-core-js
On Apr 8, 8:09 am, Marc Guillemot <mguille...@yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Hi,

> [cross post on Rhino & HtmlUnit-dev mailing lists]

> as discussed for some time on the Rhino mailing list, we (the HtmlUnit
> project) have now started our Rhino fork. The main motivation is to be
> able to fix problems that we currently have with Rhino and for which no
> workaround is possible "from outside".

> http://htmlunit.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/htmlunit/trunk/core-js/

> I wish that we will be able to close this project in a not too far
> future, once all issues that matter for us are fixed in Rhino. For this
> purpose we will continue to open issues and provide patches reflecting
> the changes we will make in htmlunit-core-js. Nevertheless I understand
> that Rhino committers' priorities are a bit different than ours (for
> instance being able to reproduce browser behavior is more important for
> us than speed) and that the patches we propose may not get applied.

> Cheers,
> Marc.
> --
> Blog:http://mguillem.wordpress.com

On the Rhino side, I have been working to make changes needed by
HTMLUnit and thus remove the need for a continuation of the fork. In
particular, I want to allow for pluggable Map classes to implement
JavaScript objects, which would allow for HTMLUnit to choose slower,
browser-compatible behavior while others can choose faster behavior. I
know I've been a bit slow in getting these things done and appreciate
the need for HTMLUnit to have a place to make their changes quickly.

Thanks,
Norris


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