[racket] recent updates to Whalesong development: web-world

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at cs.wpi.edu> wrote:
> We're smack in the middle of implementing web-world for Whalesong,
> which is analogous to regular world, but with web pages.  Unlike
> regular world, the callbacks in web-world take in both the world as
> well as a functional representation of the DOM.

Request for browser help.  I'm trying to make the Whalesong-compiled
program here:

    http://hashcollision.org/whalesong/examples/todo/todo.html

work for as many browsers as I can.


>From my experiments:

    * Chrome, the fresh-off-the-shelf Mozilla nightly, and Konqueror
can run this program fine.

    * Firefox non-nightlies fails with that crazy lexical scoping bug.

    * Mobile Safari on the iPad as well as the iPhone fails, but
without any error message.

    * Browser on the Nexus One (Gingerbread) runs with no problems.

    * Browser on the Motorola Droid crashes.


People with mobile browsers in particular: can you visit the page and
report what you see?  That would be a big help.  Stack traces or any
kind of debugging output would be golden.


I don't have a concrete idea what's causing my compilation strategy to
fail on the iOS devices.  My best guess so far is that its evaluator
does not like to handle such large files: I observe that the iOS
browser just stops in the middle and gives up.  If that's the case,
I'll need to fracture the code into separate, independent JS files.