[OpenLayers-Dev] Request for help from Opera users

[Roald de Wit]

Hi Tim,

Tim Schaub wrote:
> 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.
>   

Andreas pointed out that the problem with this Opera lies in the greedy 
parameter that's used in tokenRegEx ('g'). A quick search pointed me to 
over 40 cases in the OL library where we use the greedy parameter in 
regular expressions.

When I played with Opera 9.27 yesterday, I could make the JS errors go 
away (in the sundials example) with changing the 'trim' function to use 
'new RegExp' too.
So, we *can* make some functionality work for this version of Opera if 
we put the effort in.

The main question is: do we want to put all this effort in to support 
this version? I just asked the reporter of #2120 if he would consider 
upgrading to the latest Opera version [2], which might be the easiest 
way out.

Older versions of Opera can be found here: [1] for anyone to try out.

[1] http://www.filehippo.com/download_opera/3976/
[2] http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2120#comment:7

Regards, Roald