[Sugar-devel] Web activities on XO-4

[Daniel Narvaez]

Well, there are several html features which depend on each activity having
their own origin, for example local storage.

On Wednesday, 18 September 2013, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:

> No, why is needed use a local web server instead of
>  the use of the proposed solution (use 'enable-file-access-from-file-
> uris' )
>
> Gonzalo
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'dwnarvaez at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>> You mean why the http server would be a problem?
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, 18 September 2013, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
>>
>>>  This is for the potential security risk of opening files outside of the
>>> activity directory,
>>> or because can be a problem with different activities running at the
>>> same time
>>> or multiple instances of the same activity?
>>>
>>> Gonzalo
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> You could put an http server in the activity... Sucks but I'm not sure
>>>> there is a better way :/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, 18 September 2013, Manuel Quiñones wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I finally got web activities working on XO-4, in the AU build
>>>>> published yesterday [1] .  I did it by modifying webactivities.py to
>>>>> use WebKitGTK1 instead of v2.  The changes are:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/manuq/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-1/compare/webacts-webkit1
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried it with Gears Activity v3, and is working.  It stores the data
>>>>> and the metadata.  So it is communicating with the shell just fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> The touchscreen is not responding very well, at least in this
>>>>> activity.  I can tap buttons, but I can barely drag to move a gear or
>>>>> to draw one.  The dragging seems to be cancelled in the middle of the
>>>>> action.  Mouse input works fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also as expected, the icons look small in the XO screen because I need
>>>>> to adapt the theme.  But that is an easy one, just changing the
>>>>> CEL_SIZE variable in the LESS file to create another CSS for the XO
>>>>> screen DPI, and adding a CSS media query selector to the HTML.  I'll
>>>>> provide a patch to sugar-web-template and will update my web
>>>>> activities.
>>>>>
>>>>> The inspector is not working, it does not display.  It shoud display
>>>>> by Ctrl+Shift+I or by right-click -> "Inspect element".  There is no
>>>>> error in the logs and the API is there [2], but nothing is happening.
>>>>> Surprisingly, JavaScript console logs go to the activity log.  We are
>>>>> missing that in master.
>>>>>
>>>>> I managed to keep the activity:// scheme that we need for the
>>>>> same-origin policy, but I still had to add the setting
>>>>> 'enable-file-access-from-file-uris' to workaround the cross-site
>>>>> requests.  I can't find a way to register the URI scheme in WK1, so I
>>>>> added a big FIXME.
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] http://build.laptop.org.au/xo/os/sugar-100/build-21/
>>>>> [2]
>>>>> http://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkitgtk/stable/WebKitWebInspector.html
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Daniel Narvaez
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>> Daniel Narvaez
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>>
>

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