[Sugar-devel] Web activities on XO-4

Gonzalo Odiard gonzalo at laptop.org
Wed Sep 18 17:32:40 EDT 2013


Ok. Thanks.
The web server need have something special or just serve a directory is
enough?

Gonzalo


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>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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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Daniel Narvaez
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Daniel Narvaez
>>>
>>>
>>
>
> --
> Daniel Narvaez
>
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