Document Supported Browsers

[thorst]

This script looks/works good, and I'm sure the documentation will come when you release a beta.

But when you get to that point (or sooner) please document the browsers you have tested in.

Tested http://shawnmclean.github.io/Idle.js/

PASS::
Windows 7:
Firefox 20.0.1
Chrome Version 27.0.1453.73 beta-m
IE 10

FAIL::
Windows XP:
IE 8

SCRIPT438: Object doesn't support property or method 'addEventListener'
idle.js, line 43 character 7

I've committed to compatibility down to ie8. Unfortunately this fails in ie8. To get rid of the above error i added:

        if (document.addEventListener) {
            document.addEventListener("visibilitychange", (function () {
                return activity.handleVisibilityChange();
            }), false);
            document.addEventListener("webkitvisibilitychange", (function () {
                return activity.handleVisibilityChange();
            }), false);
            document.addEventListener("msvisibilitychange", (function () {
                return activity.handleVisibilityChange();
            }), false);
        } else {
            document.attachEvent("onvisibilitychange", (function () {
                return activity.handleVisibilityChange();
            }));
        }

This will then run, but it doesn't work. I will see if i can figure out some more fixes.

[thorst]

Everything seems to work now. I changed to:

        document.onclick = activeMethod;
        document.onmousemove = activeMethod;
        document.onmouseenter = activeMethod;
        document.onkeydown = activeMethod;
        document.onscroll = activeMethod;

Im not sure the below code ever fires though:

        document.attachEvent("onvisibilitychange", (function () {
            return activity.handleVisibilityChange();
        }));

[thorst]

The achieve the active tab functionality in ie8 you can reference https://github.com/mathiasbynens/jquery-visibility

[shawnmclean]

Hello Thorst, thanks for taking an interest in the project. I'll look into these issues. So the only problem is ie8 and the visibility api?

[thorst]

ie8 doesn't have addEventListener or visibility api. So the jquery-visibility project could help with that, if you want that feature to be in ie8. I don't really need that for my implementation, so that doesn't bother me.

It also doesn't like binding window.on* instead preferring document.on* for everything but scroll.

Correction from previous post: window.onscroll = activeMethod; scrolling event on document doesn't work. So i changed it back to window and it does work in ie8 that way.

[chrisbloom7]

Any progress on this?

[shawnmclean]

@chrisbloom7 what would you like to see changed?

[chrisbloom7]

@shawnmclean Oops, I actually meant to ask after progress on issue #9, not this one.