[Sugar-devel] Web activities on XO-4

[Manuel Quiñones]

Yeah, a web server is how this issue is usually overcome.  I was
expecting a proper way but seems that only webkit2 has one, the
register_uri_scheme .

2013/9/18 Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>:
> 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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