Release Notes of SlimerJS 0.7¶

version 0.7¶

SlimerJS 0.7 has been released on June 10, 2013.

Many improvements have been made to have a better compatibility with PhantomJS, although it is not 100% compatible yet.

Implementation of require.paths, a list of paths where modules can be found (CommonJS modules 1.1 specification)
Implementation of require.globals, an object which can contain properties that will be shared between modules as global variables/functions/objects.
Implementation of require.extensions, to declare specific loaders corresponding to some file extensions
Implementation of phantom.defaultPageSettings. Note that settings are not supported yet by the webpage module.
callbacks webpage.onLoadStarted and webpage.onLoadFinished receive two additional parameters: the url that is loaded, and a boolean true if the loaded page is in a frame.
Support of webpage.onCallback and window.callPhantom()
Support of webpage.onError
Support of webpage.onNavigationRequested and webpage.navigationLocked
Support of webpage.customHeaders
Support of webpage.settings.userAgent
Support of webpage.openUrl()
Implementation of setters of webpage.content and webpage.frameContent
Implementation of webpage.setContent()
Implementation of webpage.release() (deprecated method in PhantomJS, replaced by webpage.close().

Issue #36: Support of scripts and modules written with the Coffee-Script language
Support of JSON modules
Issue #32: a new profile is created each time we launch SlimerJS, to not have preferences, cookies or other data created by a previous launch. It is still possible to use a permanent profile to keep data between two launchs.
new option on the commande line: --error-log-file=filename to log errors in a file

when we launched SlimerJS from a symbolic link, there was an error “application.ini path not recognized”
issue #15: Slimerjs freezed on JS errors, when calling webpage.evaluate(). A default error handler is used now.
issue #36: Exit code of Firefox/Xulrunner should be used as exit code of the slimerjs shell script

Modules have now access to global objects like window, phantom, document...
Changed fs.workingDirectory from a method to a property, even if it violates the CommonsJS filesystem specification.
webpage.injectJs() and phantom.injectJs() now return a boolean and try to load the given file from the current working dir before from the library path, like PhantomJS does.
callbacks webpage.onLoadStarted and webpage.onLoadFinished are called when a frame is loading a new document inside the web page.
Issue #11: support of all possible arguments on webpage.open()
The webserver guesses now the content type of some files (images..)

Here are the PhantomJS APIs that are missing in SlimerJS 0.7. Of course, their implementation is planed in future releases.

most of options for the command line are not supported
no API to manage HTTP cookies, although cookies are supported (they are stored automatically)
no support of the webpage.offlineStorage* properties, although offlineStorage is supported natively and usable by a web page
no API to manage child windows
no support of settings on the webpage object
no support of file uploading in web page (webpage.uploadFile(), webpage.onFilePicker..)
no support of Ghost Driver

You can read the compatibility table to know details.