It looks like calling the googleyolo javascript object doesn't work with chrome extensions, probably because it's using an iframe with redirect under the hood, that extensions do not like.
Am I right in thinking chrome extensions are not supported? If yes, does anyone know if there is a plan to support them?
That’s correct. Currently the API expects the calling page to not run inside an extension. We may change this in the future. However you can accomplish what you want to do via a chrome tab launch to a well known page which the extension can inject content scripts into, and notify via chrome cross tab messaging after sign in.
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I'm using Playwright (Java) to drive a particular third-party Web site, the first page of which apparently containing two images which are password protected; this causes a sequence of basic-authentication dialogs to open when the page loads.
I'd like the script to dismiss these dialogs (cancel), rather than providing any credentials, and then continue working with the page. But as it stands now, the page.navigate() blocks and eventually times out, unless I cancel these dialogs manually with the mouse.
Note that this is the native browser dialog, not anything generated from js on the page.
Is this possible with Playwright?
Interestingly, I was able to work around this by disabling images entirely in Chrome, which might have other (performance) benefits, too.
Added this to the array of Chrome startup arguments:
--blink-settings=imagesEnabled=false
Of course, this only solved this specific case, in which the login prompts were being triggered by image URLs.
I am building a simple Firefox add-on using the Add-on SDK, and I need it to display some information when first ran.
I don't want to rely on an external URL for this, so I figured that my best option is to use the chrome:// scheme.
I have two questions
How to create said page?
Is it possible to pass a value to it (something along the lines of welcome.html?key=abc)?
You need to register a content or resource url scheme in chrome.manifest. You will be able to use window.location object there as usual.
I have a site which uses microsoft mvc 3 on the server side, jQuery Mobile on the client side and I want to combine it with PhoneGap and produce executes for Android and iOS.
Is it possible?
How?
Thanks
Yes, it is possible.
If you must use Phonegap, there are a couple of things to do:
First, you must create a project corresponding to each platform , following these instructions. Once you do that, you basically copy all the client side code (js, html, css) to the www folder of your project. This is one of the reasons, the app could load faster, since it's reading its resources from the local filesystem, and not receiving them from an http connection each time.
Second, you must find a way to provide your server side data to your app. If you are already using REST services or RPC methods to populate your website, then that's done, but if not, you must start by building them, and then calling them from your client (through ajax calls from jQUery most likely), and then rendering them through javascript (you can use the multiple templating libraries out there or just plain javascript, I recommend the latter only if the UI updates are minimal).
As you can see, the second part requires quite a little bit more work. Especially if you haven't built web services before.
The other option ,which does not require phonega/cordova is to use an embedded webview. Then you wouldn't have to do anything. It would work similarly to a browser (Loading the remote URL of your site), with the added advantage of being inside and android/ios app, and you could add other views or communicate with the embedded webview using native code. If you are planning to load html files from the filesystem and not from your server, you would have to do the same thing you have to do with phonegap.
It happened to me, if you have a web app depending on server code I would go with a WebView based app, and not a Cordova app.
It's really simple to create those webviews apps for Android or IPhone.
Here you have an example for building a webview based app on android
Here you have an example for building a webview based app on IOS
Hope it helps.
If you want to reuse your site you'll need a webview that browses it.
Phonegap wouldn't be needed if you use this approach, but the application will not be as responsive as a native app, and the IPhone moderators may reject your app for that reason (it happened to me).
Another approach would be that you recreate your site as a pure Javascript application and only communicate with your servers to execute some REST Services. In this case Apache Cordova makes sense.
I am currently thinking of writing an AutoFill plugin/widget which will take my personal data such as First Name, Last Name etc from a file/javascript and will automatically fill it in web page form.
I have read till now to build a plugin which works for all browsers, I have two options:-
1) To make a Jquery UI widget
2) To make a NPAPI plugin
Is there any other easier method to develop an autofilling plugin, and which option to take i.e. NPAPI plugin or Jquery widget ?
Thanks
Neither of the two options you mention will allow you to automatically fill in your personal data on all websites.
You'll want to write a browser extension (which are different from plugins). As you want to target multiple browsers, you may want to look into frameworks which make that easier, like crossrider.
I've seen numerous references to browser.js while trying to create a Firefox sidebar. I don't have a good understanding of what this file is though. It has a method toggleSidebar in it. Can I call that method from a web page? Can I call it from a browser extension? Do I need to include browser.js in my extension somehow first? Can I call it from the add-on SDK or is it only available from the old style XUL extensions?
I don't have a good understanding of what this file is though.
It is the code driving the Firefox browser window, lots of code actually.
Can I call that method from a web page?
No. You can use window.sidebar.addPanel() to add a sidebar however.
Can I call it from a browser extension?
Yes.
Do I need to include browser.js in my extension somehow first?
No, it is already included in the browser window.
Can I call it from the add-on SDK or is it only available from the old style XUL extensions?
You can use it from the Add-on SDK as well but you will need to access the browser window directly - either via one of the low-level modules or chrome authority.