Browser support for Opal

This library aims to be a full-blown wrapper for all the browser API including HTML5.

Features

This is a list of the currently wrapped features and some details on them.

DOM

DOM support is complete as far as I know, it has a very Nokogiri feel to it with obvious differences where relevant (for instance, event handling).

$document.on 'dom:load' do
  alert "yo dawg, I'm all loaded up in here"
end

It also supports a markaby inspired builder DSL which generates DOM nodes directly instead of creating a string.

$document.on 'dom:load' do
  DOM {
    div.info {
      span.red "I'm all cooked up."
    }
  }.append_to($document.body)
end

CSSOM

CSSOM support is still incomplete but the useful parts are implemented, this includes a DSL for generating a CSS style and the same DSL is also used to change style declarations (which can either belong to a DOM::Element or a CSS::Rule::Style).

$document.body.style.apply {
  background color: 'black'
  color 'white'
  font family: 'Verdana'
}

AJAX & SJAX

The XMLHttpRequest API has been wrapped completely, it also optionally supports binary results as typed-arrays.

It easily allows for synchronous and asynchronous requests.

Browser::HTTP.get "/something.json" do
  on :success do |res|
    alert res.json.inspect
  end
end

WebSocket

Websockets have been fully wrapped and they are easily configurable with blocks.

Browser::Socket.new 'ws://echo.websocket.org' do
  on :open do
    every 1 do
      puts "ping"
    end
  end

  on :message do |e|
    log "Received #{e.data}"
  end
end

EventSource

Event sources have been implemented and are easily configurable with blocks.

History

The HTML5 History API has been fully wrapped.

Storage

The HTML5 Storage API has been wrapped and it exports a single Storage class that uses the most appropriate and available API to store data locally.

Browser support

Internet Explorer 6+
Firefox (Current - 1) or Current
Chrome (Current - 1) or Current
Safari 5.1+
Opera 12.1x or (Current - 1) or Current

Any problem above browsers should be considered and reported as a bug.

(Current - 1) or Current denotes that we support the current stable version of the browser and the version that preceded it. For example, if the current version of a browser is 24.x, we support the 24.x and 23.x versions.

12.1x or (Current - 1) or Current denotes that we support Opera 12.1x as well as last 2 versions of Opera. For example, if the current Opera version is 20.x, we support Opera 12.1x, 19.x and 20.x but not Opera 15.x through 18.x.

Cross-browser testing sponsored by BrowserStack.

CSS selectors

Older browsers do not support CSS selector in queries, this means you'll need external polyfills for this.

The suggested polyfill is Sizzle, require it before opal-browser.

JSON parsing

Older browsers don't support JSON parsing natively, this means you'll need external polyfills for this.

The suggested polyfill is json2, require it before opal-browser.

XPath support

Not all browsers support XPath queries, I'm looking at you Internet Explorer, this means you'll need external polyfills for this.

The suggested polyfill is wgxpath, require it before opal-browser.

aostrega / opal-browser