Is these a bug?

Mike Taylor,Opera Software

@miketaylr

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Web Opener

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-o-mg {}

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“Is these a bug?”

fix plz

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3 Scenarios

1. Halp.

2. I’ve found a bug.

3. I’ve got a patch for that.

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Worst Bug Reports Ever

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The best bug report ever?

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Search

• Trac

• Google

• IRC

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Build the sauce

• git clone http://github.com/jquery/jquery.git

• make/rake/ant

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Reduce the problem

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Test Case

• Test page on your server >

• jsfiddle/jsbin >

• Production site >

• Nothing

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Recreate the Issue

• State the browser(s) and platform

• Define observed behavior

• Define expected behavior

• Define sequential steps to reproduce behavior

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exemplia gratia

• IE8/XP and Win7 (dump UA string too)

• jQuery(‘option[selected]’).length == 0

• The attribute selector should work

• 1) navigate to www.testcase.com

• 2) observe selector not working

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Submit a patch

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• http://goo.gl/xZHv

• http://dev.jquery.com

• http://github.com/jquery/jquery

Resources

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Thanks.

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