debugging a CEF browser instance

Matthias Rebbe matthias_livecode_150811 at m-r-d.de
Sat Jul 8 09:34:21 EDT 2017


Bernard,

in case you are filing a bug report could you please post the bug id here?
I would like to add a comment with some websites urls i have problems with when using the widget /CEF browser.


Regards,
Matthias

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> Am 08.07.2017 um 14:59 schrieb Mark Waddingham via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>:
> 
> Hi Bernard,
> 
> There's no list, no. The widget is a reasonably thin wrapper around either CEF or (on Mac, iOS and Android) the system provided WebView.
> 
> Without actually seeing cases to investigate which do not work as expected it is hard to advise what the problem might be (although 'cross origin requests' is one possibility).
> 
> Certainly as we discover such issues documenting them in the dictionary would be useful.
> 
> As mentioned before if you could file a bug report so we can look into it, that would be most helpful.
> 
> Warmest Regards,
> 
> Mark.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On 8 Jul 2017, at 09:59, Bernard Devlin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Mark,
>> 
>> I suspect this is the problem. Is there a list of things which the LC
>> embedded browser forbids? Is there an explanation of the rationale for the
>> embedded browser to behave differently from a default browser?
>> 
>> This should be noted in the Dictionary, perhaps in the top entry
>> of: com.livecode.widget.browser.  Those who try Livecode for the first time
>> and discover that the browser widget "doesn't work reliably" (which is how
>> it appeared to me) may simply give up on Livecode.  Indeed, it might be
>> better if a warning appears when a page attempts to do something that has
>> been restricted (assuming the browser widget throws an exception when such
>> things happen).
>> 
>> Regards
>> Bernard
>> 
>> On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The fact it doesn't work in either Mac's WebView of CEF may suggest that
>>> the webpage
>>> is doing something which is 'not allowed' by default
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