[Sugar-devel] Preview field in web activities

[Daniel Narvaez]

Probably the svg...


On 9 September 2013 15:52, Suraj K S <suraj.gillespie at gmail.com> wrote:

> canvas.toDataURL() throws the Security Exception in both paint-web and
> markdown activities.
>
> I tried it on an earlier an activity which i made some time back,
> https://github.com/surajgillespie/myactivity
> In this case it works fine.
> I'm able to get the image in a base 64 encoded string.
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> On 9 September 2013 18:21, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Did you try with a very simple page, just some text for example. From one
>> ticket on their github it seems like it could depend on the content and
>> there might be issues with svg.
>>
>>
>> On 9 September 2013 14:49, Suraj K S <suraj.gillespie at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> @Daniel, yes, I did download it locally.
>>>
>>> @Manuel, canvas.toDataURL() isn't generating any trouble in your
>>> activity.
>>>
>>> Regarding the performance, it can match the quality of the preview image
>>> in python, if not better. Tested it for many pages, seems to render the
>>> preview image well enough.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Assuming we can get it to work, even if it's not great we could keep
>>>> the JS implementation as a fallback for platforms that don't have a native
>>>> implementation.
>>>>
>>>
>>> And yeah, I'll try getting this working asap.
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Daniel Narvaez
>>
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Daniel Narvaez
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