Multibrowser testing on ajax.org
I’ve been testing Javeline PlatForm (which will be released soon) at www.ajax.org. It seems that Safari 3 still has some issues with it’s XPath engine forcing me to use my own implementation. Safari 3 is extermely fast though. What they say about it is really true. If they’d only fix their anti-aliasing a bit (and the crashes) I’d actually start to like this browser. Opera 9.21 seems to have a drawing issues when png’s are involved so I was forced to disable the sliding of the window for now. I also found that violating the same-origin security feature in opera cannot be caught (try..catch). We use this to fallback to a proxy based set up when needed. Opera also has a nasty reloading issue with the images in the TelePort example. I sent loads of bug reports to opera and apple about their browsers (++ points on the bug reporting button in Safari 3 beta) so hopefully they’ll do something with them. I’ll write an article soon on some of the problems and solutions I had to make to get drag&drop working. But first, Im working on getting all the details ironed out to release Javeline PlatForm, the first public release. Stay posted!
