Any ways to support linux/OSX platforms? about triflejs HOT 8 CLOSED

Use Mono perhaps? http://mono-project.com/Main_Page

We are interesting in using this with Wraith

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This would be awesome, as it would make testing for regressions in IE so much easier. I'm guessing it is highly unlikely though since it requires IE to be installed.

From the readme:

It supports different version of IE interchangeably depending on the current version installed 
(IE9 can emulate IE7, IE8 or IE9 but not IE10).

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IE is surgically intertwined with Windows. Wine has tried but failed (all ratings are garbage). Beyond that, you'd need to have the COM interop between the WebOC and .NET WebBrowserControl working... it's not possible, and if it was, it won't be worth it.

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I'm afraid @nathanboktae nathanboktae is right here. TrifleJS just uses the version of IE embedded in the Windows OS via COM interaction.

Even the Mono Project which provides .NET support on linux/OSX does not use IE for its WebBrowser control, shifting the functionality to a Mozilla/Webkit browser instead:

http://www.mono-project.com/WebBrowser

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Maybe the best solution is to automatise the process (with grunt for example) and virtualbox.

If we've got one virtualbox for each IE / Windows Version (get on modern.ie) we can make a global task to :

[HOST] - Lunch the VM as headless (VBoxHeadless --startvm "io" --vrde off &)

[VM] Lunch startup task with the task :

• Update the testsuite on VM from the repository
• Run the test suite with (trifle.js)
• Save test result to the host shared folder labelled by project name, date, system version and IE version
• Close the virtualbox

[HOST] Check if the vm is runing (VBoxManage list runningvms) :

• If yes : recheck in 5 minutes
• If not : run the next VM

Like that you don't use the compatibility mode of IE wich can have several difference with the native IE for CSS rendering and also for Javascript compiling (IE11 wich do not understand anymore the conditional comments is the best example).

Maybe take several time to do it, but you can run the tests before leaving the office and get the result the following morning.

It can take a while to configure for the first VM but you can keep the same script for all your VMs after this one.

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Or maybe more easy by using Vagrant http://www.vagrantup.com/blog/feature-preview-vagrant-1-6-windows.html

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Hi @veacks, thanks for suggestion. Haven't used Vagrant but sounds like a good complement for automating multiple concurrent instances of triflejs. Other project on my radar is Docker, which is bringing guest containers to Windows soon.

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