[Buildbot-devel] Merging nine to master?

[Pierre Tardy]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Brooks Moses <brooks at codesourcery.com>wrote:

> Pierre Tardy wrote, at 8/13/2012 5:48 AM:
> > FWIW,
> > I have a showcase "metabuildbot master running on the cloud:
> >
> > http://buildbot.6f9cc.project.ovh.net:8011
>
> Shiny!  But it doesn't work at all in the IE9 install that IT has put on
> my work laptop, and I'm concerned about what the Javascript focus of the
> new UI does to accessibility if there is not some alternate way of
> accessing the content.
>
For IE, I think we will need to support at least IE8. The plan is:
- We are base on dojo which is supposting and abstracting wide range of
quirks for wide range of browsers
- We are enforcing jshint static analysis, which cry when you use non
portable javascript syntax (e.g trailing coma in dicts have different
behaviour between IE and FF/Chrome)
- We use pure html5/css3 APIs, no flash, no browser specific extension, etc
- as far as possible test browser availability of html5 features, and
provide minimal compatible implementation if not available.
- all pages created by javascripts have their own URI, so that you can
bookmark it and navigate using back/next

For accessibility, I have to say I dont even know what accessible browsers
looks like. We use ghost for our unit testing, which is basically headless
webkit. You can navigate in the dom, and read what is the fields. I would
expect that modern accessible browsers would use this approach.
Anyway, I dont think we need to really consider this until we have real
users. I will be very happy to work with such user and implement features
for them.

Pierre
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