Dojo Demos: JSON-RPC Client broken in various ways (buttons broken, etc)

[amit@…]

I got a clean build here: ​http://download.dojotoolkit.org/release-0.4.1rc1/dojo-0.4.1rc1-core.tar.gz

A clean (unmodified) version of the demos is here: ​http://dojo.mixie.org/dojo-0.4.1rc1-core/demos/demoEngine.html

1. Click on the link above.

2. Click on RPC

3. Click on '-> View Demo'

This brings up the JSON-RPC Client in Dojo 0.4.1 Release Candidate 1.

The following problems are observed:

1. In Firefox 2.0 (ummodified) the "buttons" don't appear as buttons (They appear as buttons in Firefox 1.0.7, IE 6.0 & IE 7.0).

Firefox 2.0 has the following message in the debug trace (the other browsers that work don't have this message in the debug trace):

"DEBUG: dojo.widget.Parse: error: [TypeError: cStyle has no properties, file: http://dojo.mixie.org/dojo-0.4.1rc1-core/dojo.js, line: 163]"

2. When the buttons do appear, the RPC don't work due to a missing 'File.php'.

The following appears in the debug log, when pressing the first button:

DEBUG: JsonService?: JSON-RPC Request: {"params":blah?,"method":"myecho","id":1}

DEBUG: [SyntaxError: Syntax error]

DEBUG: main(File.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/dojo/public_html/dojo-0.4.1rc1-core/tests/rpc/test_JsonRPCMediator.php

3. Minor issue, all versions have the following in the debug log:

DEBUG: DEPRECATED: dojo.debug.Firebug is slated for removal in 0.5; use dojo.debug.console instead. 0.5

DEBUG: DEPRECATED: dojo.rpc.Deferred replaced by dojo.Deferred -- will be removed in version: 0.6

[amit@…]

More testing . . .

4. It failed to load the demo first time when used via https for Firefox 2.0. You can try the same files via https through the following link: ​https://gauguin.hmdnsgroup.com/~dojo/dojo-0.4.1rc1-core/demos/demoEngine.html

It worked in Firefox 1.0.7, IE 6.0 (although it complained the page contained both secure & non-secure items), and IE 7.0

It then worked the second time when using Firefox 2.0

Also, The buttons now started to appear in Firefox 2.0 (unlike before when they didn't). So this (the buttons not appearing) is an intermittent bug?

[amit@…]

The demos very very intemittingly sometimes don't bring up everything in FF 2.0 (to it is not related to https, but happens with http also, sometimes)

It almost appears that some load of source is silently failing.

Its very hard to reproduce unfortunatly :(

[Adam Peller]

demoengine stuff isn't getting ported to 0.9