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moxie0 / Convergence

An agile, distributed, and secure alternative to the Certificate Authority system.
http://convergence.io
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Bumped max version to 7.* since it seems to work #55

Closed chrisglass closed 13 years ago

chrisglass commented 13 years ago

I bumped the maximum allowed Firefox version to 7.* since it seems to be working locally.

Let me know if anything else is required to get this in trunk.

moxie0 commented 13 years ago

I'm hesitant to put this in a release, just because I assume FF7 is still changing slightly, and Convergence is somewhat brittle. What do you think about a FF7 branch, or do you think FF7 is stable enough for us to support it now?

chrisglass commented 13 years ago

Well I've been using convergence only on FF7 so far, and it seems to be working "just fine": no crash or errors or strange behavior of any kind, and I've been pushing an prodding things quite a lot these past days...

I would definitely consider it stable.

We should probably have some kind of test suite to assert a minimum compatibility with browser X (seamonkey comes to mind too), so be able to tell whether it works or not.

moxie0 commented 13 years ago

Yeah, I just can't imagine how that test suite might work. The entire model that Convergence is forced to use (for lack of appropriate APIs) is so hackish that it ends up being somewhat brittle. The FF6 compatibility problems on Windows, for instance, were pretty subtle, and I can't imagine how I would have written an automated test to catch it.