[OpenLayers-Dev] Request for help from Opera users

[Tim Schaub]

Hey-

Roald de Wit wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Thank you for your reply.
> 
> Christopher Schmidt wrote:
>> Any functionality that is in a released version of OpenLayers should
>> continue to work the same in all future versions of OpenLayers of the
>> same major revision. That is, there should never be any reason that
>> upgrading from 2.7 to 2.8 should cause anything to break.
>>
> I agree in general but not when somebody (1 person) uses an old version
> of Opera that should have been
> upgraded anyway (security).
>> The report from the user is not clear. If -- as I am assuming --
>> "This worked in 2.7,  and 2.8 breaks it" -- that is, simply switching to
>> 2.8 causes a regression in behavior -- then this is a bug.
>>
> Unless we introduce new functionality that hits a bug in Opera that they
> fixed in a later stable version.
> It is a fact that the 2.8 branch does not work with this particular
> version of this browser (I verified that today).
> 
> Plus, the 'new RegExp('...')' notation makes regular expressions harder
> to read with the extra backslashes.
> 
> Anyway, the patch in #2103 does not solve the issue yet. It looks like
> another regular expression needs to be converted.
> 

I'd like to get confirmation from someone with an older version of Opera 
about what works and what doesn't.  My recollection is that the patch 
made Opera 9.27 happy - even though it didn't remove all literal regular 
expressions.  You'll note that we had literal regexes in literal objects 
in 2.7 as well.  Hence my request for someone to check 2.7 in the same 
version of Opera.

If nobody has Opera 9.27, I'll look at reverting mine.  Though this does 
add weight to the opinion that the effort is a bit quixotic.

Tim

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> 
> Roald
> 
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