Bug 48961

Summary:	sunspider throws error in IE6
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Paul Irish <paulirish>
Component:	Tools / Tests	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	Normal	CC:	levin, mjs
Priority:	P2
Version:	528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
URL:	http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9.1/sunspider-0.9.1/driver.html

Description Paul Irish 2010-11-03 16:40:03 PDT

This is a regression unique to 0.9.1. In 0.9, this error was not thrown.

This is the error in question:

Line: 71
Character: 9
Code: 0
Error Message: 'contentDocument' is null or not an object
URL: http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9.1/sunspider-0.9.1/driver.html

Comment 1 David Levin 2011-06-17 11:51:17 PDT

Does this matter at this point?

Comment 2 Paul Irish 2011-06-18 08:57:16 PDT

I was interested in the relative difference between engine performance...

And the fix seems easy enough,

but aside from that, it doesnt matter a whole lot.

Comment 3 Maciej Stachowiak 2011-07-02 18:41:10 PDT

(In reply to comment #2)
> I was interested in the relative difference between engine performance...
> 
> And the fix seems easy enough,
> 
> but aside from that, it doesnt matter a whole lot.

The fix would change what the test is testing though (array access rather than string access) so it would reduce the number of different kinds of things covered by SunSpider. I think keeping coverage of string indexing is more valuable than supporting IE6.