Re: Proposed policy change: reusability of tests by other browsers

2012-10-05 Thread Jonas Sicking
Sorry to bring back an old thread, but the upcoming "Test the web forward" meeting reminded me of this thread. In general I really approve of this idea, however I have one major concern. > 2) Write an introduction to testharness.js targeted at people familiar > with mochitest. testharness.js is

Re: An object that corresponds to the life of a document load?

2012-10-05 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > Do we have an object that represents the life of a document load from > the very beginning of deciding to load a URL in a browsing context to > the firing of the load event? > > nsIChannel/nsIRequest is not it, because it only lasts until the

Re: NS_New$THING vs. new $THING

2012-10-05 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 10/5/12 8:55 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: With WebIDL you don't even need to use XPCOM interfaces to expose something to javascript! Indeed. As of a few days ago, you don't even need to inherit from nsISupports. ;) -Boris ___ dev-platform mailing

Re: NS_New$THING vs. new $THING

2012-10-05 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Nathan Froyd wrote: > I recently filed a bug (bug 792169) for adding NS_NewIMutableArray, in > service of deleting nsISupportsArray. The reviewer asked me to use > more standard C++ instead of perpetuating the NS_New* idiom and I did > so, with a static |Create| me

W3C test-writing event in Paris / Beijing

2012-10-05 Thread fantasai
Test the Web Forward registration is now open for Paris (26-27 Oct 2012) http://testtwfparis.eventbrite.com/ http://testthewebforward.org/paris-2012.html There's also an event in Beijing (in Chinese only) 20-21 Oct 2012: http://testthewebforward.org/beijing-2012.html This is a community ev

Re: Flash Player freezes XULRunner

2012-10-05 Thread Philipp Wagner
Am 05.10.2012 03:54, schrieb James Newell: > Loading any page with a SWF into a element causes XULRunner > 15.0.1 to freeze on Win7 32bit and 64bit. I've encountered the same > problem with a few versions of Flash Player, both v10 and v11. > > Firefox 15.0.1 works fine. What do I need to do to ge

Re: IMPORTANT: Do not pull from inbound

2012-10-05 Thread Neil
Ehsan Akhgari wrote: use a better revision control system Or a better file system perhaps ;-) -- Warning: May contain traces of nuts. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: mach has landed

2012-10-05 Thread Neil
Nicholas Nethercote wrote: On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Justin Lebar wrote: 1) Build errors are hard to identify with make. Parallel execution can make them even harder to track down. Poor output from invoked processes is also a problem. I have a script [1] which works well en