Update web site and readme about the ends of development

Refs #722

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
 
+
+Note: the development of SlimerJS has been suspended, due to technical issues difficult to resolve with Firefox 60 
+and higher.
+
+
+
+
 How to fill an issue
 ====================
 

CREDITS.md

@@ -7,16 +7,78 @@ by others project or contributors, is Laurent Jouanneau.
 ```
 $ git shortlog -s -n | cut -c8-
 Laurent Jouanneau
+Hallvord R. M. Steen
+mark
+Wojciech Skorodecki
+abozhilov
+Thomas Grainger
+Kevin Grandon
+Will Hilton
+Marco Castelluccio
+Pavel
 Vincent Meurisse
+Arpad Borsos
+Darren Cook
+Ivan Enderlin
+Jerry Lundström
+Justin Klemm
 laurentj
 Matthew Kastor
 Niek van der Maas
+Ricardo Bernardeli
+Alexander Tsirel
+Artem Sapegin
+Avindra Goolcharan
 Bartvds
 Boris Staal
-Darren Cook
+Brendan Dahl
+Brian Birtles
+Brian Donovan
+Charlie Hulcher
+Christoph Burgmer
+Delta React User
+Emmanuel ROECKER
+Eric White
+Grahack
+Ian McGowan
 Jaime Iniesta
+James Alastair McLaughlin
+Jens Nockert
+M Alix
+Maciej Brencz
+Marc-Aurèle DARCHE
+Matt McClure
+Mitchell N Charity
+Patrick Lucas
+Paul Chaplin
+Paul Geraghty
+Rémi Emonet
+Sam Dutton
+Stoyko Stanchev
+Viktor Nagy
 fumitoito
+Avadh Patel
+Bhuvaneswaran
+BitcoinCTF
+Dimitar Angelov
+Kamron Batman
+Kevin Petit
 Krzysztof Jurewicz
+Kunal Mehta
+Mariano Urreta
+Nabi KaramAliZadeh
+Nagy Attila Gabor
+Pavel Evstigneev
+Quentin Le Calvez
+René Wagner
+Sasha Koss
+Sergey Kogan
+Shannon Little
+Sleepydragn1
+Tim Gates
+falconepl
+itsgreggreg
+jefleponot
 ```
 
 See also [contribution graphs on github](https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/graphs/contributors).

README.md

@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ It is useful to do functional tests, page automation, network monitoring, screen
 
 It is a tool like [PhantomJs](http://phantomjs.org/), except that
 it runs Gecko instead of Webkit, and it is headless when using Firefox 56+.
+It can be used with Firefox 59. 
+
+**Higher version of Firefox is not supported and probably will not be supported
+in the future, as the development is suspended for now**.
+
 
 SlimerJS provides the same API of PhantomJS. The current version of SlimerJS
 is highly compatible with PhantomJS 2.1.
@@ -29,7 +34,6 @@ Follow us on twitter: [@slimerjs](https://twitter.com/slimerjs)
 
 Ask your questions on the dedicated [mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/slimerjs).
 
-Or discuss with us on IRC: channel #slimerjs on irc.mozilla.org.
 
 # Install SlimerJS, executing a script...
 

website/about.html

@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ <h1>title</h1>
               <a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/issues"><img class="imgbtn" src="assets/img/bug_bleu.png"> Bug? Ideas!</a>
             </li>
           </ul>
-          <p>Copyright 2013-2018 Laurent Jouanneau / <a href="http://innophi.com">Innophi</a> - Design by <a href="http://www.3liz.com/">3Liz</a></p>
+          <p>Copyright 2013-2021 Laurent Jouanneau / <a href="http://innophi.com">Innophi</a> - Design by <a href="http://www.3liz.com/">3Liz</a></p>
       </div>
     </footer>
 

website/assets/css/docs.css

@@ -126,6 +126,10 @@ hr.soften {
     font-size: 18px;
 }
 
+#download .warning {
+  font-size: 18px;
+}
+
 a {
     color: rgb(22, 120, 127);
 }

website/checksum.html

@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ <h2>Verifying checksum of a package</h2>
               <a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/issues"><img class="imgbtn" src="assets/img/bug_bleu.png"> Bug? Ideas!</a>
             </li>
           </ul>
-          <p>Copyright 2013-2018 Laurent Jouanneau / <a href="http://innophi.com">Innophi</a> - Design by <a href="http://www.3liz.com/">3Liz</a></p>
+          <p>Copyright 2013-2021 Laurent Jouanneau / <a href="http://innophi.com">Innophi</a> - Design by <a href="http://www.3liz.com/">3Liz</a></p>
       </div>
     </footer>
 

website/community.html

@@ -75,8 +75,7 @@ <h1>Community</h1>
               <h1 class="install">title</h1>
             </div-->
              <ul>
-                <li>Questions? Discuss with us on <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/slimerjs">the mailing list</a>
-                or on <strong>IRC</strong> (irc.mozilla.org, #slimerjs)</li>
+                <li>Questions? Discuss with us on <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/slimerjs">the mailing list</a></li>
                 <li>Bugs? Improvement ideas? <a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/issues">Post an issue</a>.</li>
                 <li>You can contribute in <a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs">the source code of SlimerJS</a>
                 or in <a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/tree/master/website">the source code of the website</a> on Github.</li>
@@ -108,7 +107,7 @@ <h1 class="install">title</h1>
               <a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/issues"><img class="imgbtn" src="assets/img/bug_bleu.png"> Bug? Ideas!</a>
             </li>
           </ul>
-          <p>Copyright 2013-2018 Laurent Jouanneau / <a href="http://innophi.com">Innophi</a> - Design by <a href="http://www.3liz.com/">3Liz</a></p>
+          <p>Copyright 2013-2021 Laurent Jouanneau / <a href="http://innophi.com">Innophi</a> - Design by <a href="http://www.3liz.com/">3Liz</a></p>
       </div>
     </footer>
 

website/download.html

@@ -92,9 +92,6 @@ <h1>Download</h1>
                 SlimerJS, that you can use with all operating system. You have
                 to install Firefox separately.
                 </li>
-                <li>Or do nothing if you're using a continuous deployment
-                    platform as a SAAS, that proposes SlimerJS, like <strong> <a
-                href="https://www.codeship.io/">CodeShip</a></strong>.</li>
             </ul>
 
             <p>SlimerJS is released under the <a href="http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/">Mozilla
@@ -166,7 +163,7 @@ <h2>Firefox</h2>
                 Prefered version: 53.0 to 59.0.</p>
                 <p>Launching SlimerJS requires additional setup actions.
                     See the <a href="https://docs.slimerjs.org/current/installation.html#setup">documentation</a>.</p>
-                <p><a class="btn" href="http://getfirefox.com">Download</a></p>
+                <p><a class="btn" href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/59.0.1/">Download</a></p>
             </div>
         </div>
         </section>
@@ -269,7 +266,7 @@ <h1 class="install">Preview Versions</h1>
               <a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/issues"><img class="imgbtn" src="assets/img/bug_bleu.png"> Bug? Ideas!</a>
             </li>
           </ul>
-          <p>Copyright 2013-2018 Laurent Jouanneau / <a href="https://innophi.com">Innophi</a> - Design by <a href="http://www.3liz.com/">3Liz</a></p>
+          <p>Copyright 2013-2021 Laurent Jouanneau / <a href="https://innophi.com">Innophi</a> - Design by <a href="http://www.3liz.com/">3Liz</a></p>
       </div>
     </footer>
 

website/faq.html

@@ -94,11 +94,21 @@ <h1>title</h1>
 
     <dt id="firefox-compatibility">Which version of Firefox is SlimerJS compatible with?</dt>
     <dd>It runs with Firefox 52 and higher versions.<br>Officially, SlimerJS
-        is only compatible with stable versions of Firefox.
+        is only compatible with stable versions of Firefox until Firefox 59.
     </dd>
 
-    <dt id="firefox-unstable">Can SlimerJS be executed with unstable version of Firefox?</dt>
-    <dd>Yes, if you make some changes. This is explained <a href="https://docs.slimerjs.org/current/installation.html#using-unstable-version-or-very-old-versions-of-firefox-xulrunner">in the installation manual</a>.</dd>
+    <dt id="end-of-development">Why SlimerJS is not compatible with Firefox 60 and higher?</dt>
+    <dd>The Ghostbusters team of Mozilla decided to kill XUL extensions into Firefox some years ago, and so many
+        of internal API of Firefox became unstable. Then it became more and more difficult to update SlimerJS at each
+    new version of Firefox, as those internal API changed, disappeared etc. This ghost trap worked so well that at some
+        points, it even became  impossible to adapt SlimerJS without rewriting it entirely. Because of lack of time and motivation,
+    the main developer stopped the development of SlimerJS in 2018 and decided in 2021 to officially end the project.</dd>
+
+    <dt id="why-slimerjs-name">Why is it called "SlimerJs"?</dt>
+    <dd>Slimer is the name of a ghost in the movie "GhostBusters". As you may know, the Firefox
+        source code uses some references from this movie, and since PhantomJS,
+        CasperJs and other related tools, is a matter of... ghosts ;-)</dd>
+
 
     <dt id="standalone-version">I don't find anymore the "Standalone" edition
      like for SlimerJS 0.9. Where is it?</dt>
@@ -111,10 +121,6 @@ <h1>title</h1>
         on the command line.
     </dd>
 
-    <dt id="why-slimerjs-name">Why is it called "SlimerJs"?</dt>
-    <dd>Slimer is the name of a ghost in the movie "GhostBusters". As you may know, the Firefox
-        source code uses some references from this movie, and since PhantomJS,
-        CasperJs and other related tools, is a matter of... ghosts ;-)</dd>
 
     <dt id="how-to-contribute">How can I contribute?</dt>
     <dd>
@@ -129,7 +135,7 @@ <h1>title</h1>
                  It is stored in the github repository.</li>
             <li><a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/tree/master/website">Improve the web site</a>.
                  The web site is also stored in the github repository.</li>
-            <li>Other ideas? Discuss with us on the IRC channel or in the mailing list
+            <li>Other ideas? Discuss with us on the mailing list
              (<a href="community.html">see the community page</a>).</li>
         </ul>
     </dd>
@@ -181,7 +187,7 @@ <h1>title</h1>
               <a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/issues"><img class="imgbtn" src="assets/img/bug_bleu.png"> Bug? Ideas!</a>
             </li>
           </ul>
-          <p>Copyright 2013-2018 Laurent Jouanneau / <a href="http://innophi.com">Innophi</a> - Design by <a href="http://www.3liz.com/">3Liz</a></p>
+          <p>Copyright 2013-2021 Laurent Jouanneau / <a href="http://innophi.com">Innophi</a> - Design by <a href="http://www.3liz.com/">3Liz</a></p>
       </div>
     </footer>
 

website/features.html

@@ -104,26 +104,22 @@ <h2>Use latest Javascript language features</h2>
             ECMAScript 6 features</a>: iterators, generators, destructured assignement, Map and WeakMap,
             "let" keyword, arrow functions, promises etc. (except ES6 modules)</li>
 
-            <h2>A modern browser with latest HTML5/JS/CSS enhancements</h2>
+            <h2>An (ex-modern) browser with latest HTML5/JS/CSS enhancements</h2>
 
             <p>Since SlimerJS is executed on top of Firefox,
-            it supports all the HTML5 and CSS standards recently
-              implemented in Firefox.</p>
-
-            <p>In fact, SlimerJS is not really stuck to a specific version of Gecko:
-            it can use any recent version of Firefox 52+.</p>
+            it supports all the HTML5 and CSS standards implemented into Firefox 59.</p>
 
             <p>The web page rendering in SlimerJS is <strong>strictly identical</strong>
-            to the rendering in Firefox.</p>
+            to the rendering in Firefox 59.</p>
 
-            <p><strong>No problem to launch your web site or your web app that use HTML5 bleeding
-            edge features!</strong></p>
+            <!--<p><strong>No problem to launch your web site or your web app that use HTML5 bleeding
+            edge features!</strong></p>-->
 
             <p>See <a href="download.html">the download page</a> to know the version of
             Firefox compatible with the latest release of SlimerJS.</p>
 
             <p>You can go on <a href="http://caniuse.com">caniuse.com</a> to see the list of
-            HTML5 features supported by Firefox and you can use in web pages loaded by
+            HTML5 features supported by Firefox 59 and you can use in web pages loaded by
             SlimerJS.</p>
 
 
@@ -193,7 +189,7 @@ <h2>And some deprecated features...</h2>
               <a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/issues"><img class="imgbtn" src="assets/img/bug_bleu.png"> Bug? Ideas!</a>
             </li>
           </ul>
-          <p>Copyright 2013-2018 Laurent Jouanneau / <a href="http://innophi.com">Innophi</a> - Design by <a href="http://www.3liz.com/">3Liz</a></p>
+          <p>Copyright 2013-2021 Laurent Jouanneau / <a href="http://innophi.com">Innophi</a> - Design by <a href="http://www.3liz.com/">3Liz</a></p>
       </div>
     </footer>
 

website/index.html

@@ -62,7 +62,12 @@ <h1><img src="assets/img/glouton-homeOmbre.png"/> <span>Slimer</span>JS</h1>
       <a href="download.html" class="btn"><span class="download">Download SlimerJS <strong>1.0</strong></span><br/>
         <span class="sublabel">All operating systems - Version 1.0.0</span></a> <br>
         <strong class="newfeature">Compatible <a href="http://casperjs.org/">with CasperJS 1.1</a></strong><br>
-        <a class="relnote" href="https://docs.slimerjs.org/current/release-notes-1.0.html">Release notes</a>
+        <a class="relnote" href="https://docs.slimerjs.org/current/release-notes-1.0.html">Release notes</a><br/>
+
+        <strong class="warning">Slimerjs is only compatible with Firefox 59. <br/>
+            Higher version of Firefox will not be supported <br/>
+            because developments on SlimerJS have ceased since 2018.</strong><br>
+        <a class="relnote" href="faq.html#end-of-development">See FAQ</a>
     </p>
 
     <div class="row-fluid">
@@ -152,7 +157,7 @@ <h2>SlimerJS allows you to interact with a web page through an external JS scrip
               <a href="https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/issues"><img class="imgbtn" src="assets/img/bug_bleu.png"> Bug? Ideas!</a>
             </li>
           </ul>
-          <p>Copyright 2013-2018 Laurent Jouanneau / <a href="http://innophi.com">Innophi</a> - Design by <a href="http://www.3liz.com/">3Liz</a></p>
+          <p>Copyright 2013-2021 Laurent Jouanneau / <a href="http://innophi.com">Innophi</a> - Design by <a href="http://www.3liz.com/">3Liz</a></p>
       </div>
     </footer>