[Webtest] [dev] How to specify the browser to simulate for js support

[Matt Raible]

I think browser name and version are sufficient, since that is what 
most folks know.  I can see a need for user-agent, but the JavaScript 
version probably should be implicit based on the browser version.

Matt

On Nov 10, 2004, at 8:21 AM, Marc Guillemot wrote:

> Hi,
>
> htmlunit has the nice feature to allow to test some browser specific 
> javascript code. This means for instance that expression like 
> "document.all" will not evaluate the same depending on the browser 
> that htmlunit simulates.
>
> As we didn't have such a notion in previous version of webtest, I've 
> introduced the following behavior based on the user-agent header set 
> with <header> tag of <config>:
> - if it contains the string "Netscape", simulate - as of htmlunit - 
> Netscape 6.2.3
> - else if it contains the string "Gecko", simulate - as of htmlunit - 
> Mozilla 1.0
> - else simulate - as of htmlunit - MS IE 6.0
>
> This allowed me in a first time to quickly migrate the "header" 
> functionnality without beeing "too" wrong. I think now that we should 
> perhaps provide a finer way to control this settings from a test 
> script. For htmlunit, a "BrowserVersion" object has following 
> properties:
>     - applicationName - The name of the application
>     - applicationVersion - The version string of the application
>     - userAgent - The user agent string that will be sent to the server
>     - javaScriptVersion - The version of JavaScript
>
> What do you think?
>
> Marc.
>
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