I’ve been writing Selenium tests lately. It’s not fun, but it’s helped uncover a few bugs in our app. There are a number of places where Selenium doesn’t shine: its CSS selector engine doesn’t always find the node I’m looking for, server-based tests have a relatively anemic API, and it doesn’t support native drag & [...]
Category Archives: Javascript
Distilation
14 Oct 2009 – 10:05 am
Like most build systems, Distil requires a build file. This is similar to a build.xml file from Ant[^xml] or a rake file, however, Distil uses a YAML file rather than XML or Ruby. This means its files are simple and easier to understand. This is in keeping with the goal to keep Distil simple and [...]
Making Javascript
7 Oct 2009 – 11:40 am
Every development environment has its build tools: C and C++ have Make, Java has Ant, and Ruby has Rake. There are probably lots of other tools out there which I’ve never heard of, which is no slight to those tools, I just don’t get out much. But there aren’t many good tools for building Javascript [...]
New Tutorial on Writing Widgets
14 Feb 2008 – 10:36 pm
As the release of Coherent looms nearer, I’ve been encouraged to start writing some documentation. My first effort is up: Writing a Widget. This tutorial takes you through creating a widget using Coherent starting with raw mark up and ending with a functional (if simple) widget. Thanks to some great feedback (and encouragement) from Neil [...]
Automatic Change Notifications in Coherent
2 Feb 2008 – 5:35 pm
I’ve written a little bit about an exciting new feature in the Coherent library: automatic change notifications. In short, this reduces the amount of code you need to write and if your application only needs to support a Class A browser (like Safari 3 or Firefox), you can rely on JavaScript’s support for property getter/setter [...]