I'm playing with the idea of making a completely JavaScript-based zip/unzip utility that anyone can access from a browser. They can just drag their zip directly into the browser and it'll let them download all the files within. They can also create new zip files by dragging individual files in.
I know it'd be better to do it serverside, but this project is just for a bit of fun.
Dragging files into the browser should be easy enough if I take advantage of the various methods available. (Gmail style)
Encoding/decoding should hopefully be fine. I've seen some as3 zip libraries so I'm sure I should be fine with that.
My issue is downloading the files at the end.
window.location = 'data:jpg/image;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJR....'
this works fine in Firefox but not in Chrome.
I can embed the files as images just fine in chrome using <img src="data:jpg/image;ba.." />, but the files won't necessarily be images. They could be any format.
Can anyone think of another solution or some kind of workaround?
If you also want to give a suggested name to the file (instead of the default 'download') you can use the following in Chrome, Firefox and some IE versions:
function downloadURI(uri, name) {
var link = document.createElement("a");
link.download = name;
link.href = uri;
document.body.appendChild(link);
link.click();
document.body.removeChild(link);
delete link;
}
And the following example shows it's use:
downloadURI("data:text/html,HelloWorld!", "helloWorld.txt");
function download(dataurl, filename) {
const link = document.createElement("a");
link.href = dataurl;
link.download = filename;
link.click();
}
download("data:text/html,HelloWorld!", "helloWorld.txt");
or:
function download(url, filename) {
fetch(url)
.then(response => response.blob())
.then(blob => {
const link = document.createElement("a");
link.href = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
link.download = filename;
link.click();
})
.catch(console.error);
}
download("https://get.geojs.io/v1/ip/geo.json","geoip.json")
download("data:text/html,HelloWorld!", "helloWorld.txt");
Ideas:
Try a <a href="data:...." target="_blank"> (Untested)
Use downloadify instead of data URLs (would work for IE as well)
Want to share my experience and help someone stuck on the downloads not working in Firefox and updated answer to 2014.
The below snippet will work in both firefox and chrome and it will accept a filename:
// Construct the <a> element
var link = document.createElement("a");
link.download = thefilename;
// Construct the uri
var uri = 'data:text/csv;charset=utf-8;base64,' + someb64data
link.href = uri;
document.body.appendChild(link);
link.click();
// Cleanup the DOM
document.body.removeChild(link);
Here is a pure JavaScript solution I tested working in Firefox and Chrome but not in Internet Explorer:
function downloadDataUrlFromJavascript(filename, dataUrl) {
// Construct the 'a' element
var link = document.createElement("a");
link.download = filename;
link.target = "_blank";
// Construct the URI
link.href = dataUrl;
document.body.appendChild(link);
link.click();
// Cleanup the DOM
document.body.removeChild(link);
delete link;
}
Cross-browser solutions found up until now:
downloadify -> Requires Flash
databounce -> Tested in IE 10 and 11, and doesn't work for me. Requires a servlet and some customization. (Incorrectly detects navigator. I had to set IE in compatibility mode to test, default charset in servlet, JavaScript options object with correct servlet path for absolute paths...) For non-IE browsers, it opens the file in the same window.
download.js -> http://danml.com/download.html Another library similar but not tested. Claims to be pure JavaScript, not requiring servlet nor Flash, but doesn't work on IE <= 9.
There are several solutions but they depend on HTML5 and haven't been implemented completely in some browsers yet. Examples below were tested in Chrome and Firefox (partly works).
Canvas example with save to file support. Just set your document.location.href to the data URI.
Anchor download example. It uses <a href="your-data-uri" download="filename.txt"> to specify file name.
Combining answers from #owencm and #Chazt3n, this function will allow download of text from IE11, Firefox, and Chrome. (Sorry, I don't have access to Safari or Opera, but please add a comment if you try and it works.)
initiate_user_download = function(file_name, mime_type, text) {
// Anything but IE works here
if (undefined === window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob) {
var e = document.createElement('a');
var href = 'data:' + mime_type + ';charset=utf-8,' + encodeURIComponent(text);
e.setAttribute('href', href);
e.setAttribute('download', file_name);
document.body.appendChild(e);
e.click();
document.body.removeChild(e);
}
// IE-specific code
else {
var charCodeArr = new Array(text.length);
for (var i = 0; i < text.length; ++i) {
var charCode = text.charCodeAt(i);
charCodeArr[i] = charCode;
}
var blob = new Blob([new Uint8Array(charCodeArr)], {type: mime_type});
window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob(blob, file_name);
}
}
// Example:
initiate_user_download('data.csv', 'text/csv', 'Sample,Data,Here\n1,2,3\n');
This can be solved 100% entirely with HTML alone. Just set the href attribute to "data:(mimetypeheader),(url)". For instance...
<a
href="data:video/mp4,http://www.example.com/video.mp4"
target="_blank"
download="video.mp4"
>Download Video</a>
Working example: JSFiddle Demo.
Because we use a Data URL, we are allowed to set the mimetype which indicates the type of data to download. Documentation:
Data URLs are composed of four parts: a prefix (data:), a MIME type indicating the type of data, an optional base64 token if non-textual, and the data itself. (Source: MDN Web Docs: Data URLs.)
Components:
<a ...> : The link tag.
href="data:video/mp4,http://www.example.com/video.mp4" : Here we are setting the link to the a data: with a header preconfigured to video/mp4. This is followed by the header mimetype. I.E., for a .txt file, it would would be text/plain. And then a comma separates it from the link we want to download.
target="_blank" : This indicates a new tab should be opened, it's not essential, but it helps guide the browser to the desired behavior.
download: This is the name of the file you're downloading.
If you only need to actually have a download action, like if you bind it to some button that will generate the URL on the fly when clicked (in Vue or React for example), you can do something as easy as this:
const link = document.createElement('a')
link.href = url
link.click()
In my case, the file is already properly named but you can set it thanks to filename if needed.
For anyone having issues in IE:
dataURItoBlob = function(dataURI) {
var binary = atob(dataURI.split(',')[1]);
var array = [];
for(var i = 0; i < binary.length; i++) {
array.push(binary.charCodeAt(i));
}
return new Blob([new Uint8Array(array)], {type: 'image/png'});
}
var blob = dataURItoBlob(uri);
window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob(blob, "my-image.png");
This code was originally provided by #Yetti on this answer (separate question).
Your problem essentially boils down to "not all browsers will support this".
You could try a workaround and serve the unzipped files from a Flash object, but then you'd lose the JS-only purity (anyway, I'm not sure whether you currently can "drag files into browser" without some sort of Flash workaround - is that a HTML5 feature maybe?)
Coming late to the party, if you'd like to use a function without using the DOM, here it goes, since the DOM might not even be available for whatever reason.
It should be applicable in any Browser which has the fetch API.
Just test it here:
// declare the function
function downloadAsDataURL (url) {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
fetch(url)
.then(res => res.blob())
.then(blob => {
const reader = new FileReader()
reader.readAsDataURL(blob)
reader.onloadend = () => resolve(reader.result)
reader.onerror = err => reject(err)
})
.catch(err => reject(err))
})
}
// simply use it like this
downloadAsDataURL ('https://cdn-icons-png.flaticon.com/512/3404/3404134.png')
.then((res) => {
console.log(res)
})
.catch((err) => {
console.error(err)
})
export const downloadAs = async (url: string, name: string) => {
const blob = await axios.get(url, {
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream',
},
responseType: 'blob',
});
const a = document.createElement('a');
const href = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob.data);
a.href = href;
a.download = name;
a.click();
};
You can use a clean code solution, inform your url in a constant, and set it as param of open method instead in object window.
const url = "file url here"
window.open(url)
I have small SPA test app with Durandal.
Also I have very wired issue.
First, my folder structure is:
App
--durandal
--viewmodels
----user.js
--views
----user.html
--main.js
And when structure is like that all works just fine. But if I create structure like
App
--durandal
--_user
----viewmodels
------user.js
----views
------user.html
I get error like localhost/App/_users/viewmodels/users.html 404 Not Found. And that happens after user.js are loaded by require.js.
my main.js looks like
require.config({
paths: { "text": "../durandal/amd/text" }
});
define(function (require) {
var system = require('../durandal/system'),
app = require('../durandal/app'),
router = require('../durandal/plugins/router'),
viewLocator = require('../durandal/viewLocator'),
logger = require('../logger');
system.debug(true);
app.start().then(function () {
// route will use conventions for modules
// assuming viewmodels/views folder structure
router.useConvention();
// When finding a module, replace the viewmodel string
// with view to find it partner view.
// [viewmodel]s/sessions --> [view]s/sessions.html
// Otherwise you can pass paths for modules, views, partials
// Defaults to viewmodels/views/views.
viewLocator.useConvention();
app.setRoot('viewmodels/shell');
// override bad route behavior to write to
// console log and show error toast
router.handleInvalidRoute = function (route, params) {
logger.logError('No route found', route, 'main', true);
};
});
});
I assume that this issue has something with router.useConvention(); or with viewLocator.useConvention(); but simple can't find any reason for that kind of behavior.
Any help, suggestion, idea how to solve this?
Thanks
This is because of the behavior of the view locator, which by defaults looks for views/viewmodels in the first structure you describe.
You can easily change this behavior by supplying your own view locator function, or by calling useConvention() like this useConvention(modulesPath, viewsPath, areasPath)
i have StartPreviewAsync api to show camera preview on screen in C#
but not available in javascript ,so how can i get same preview(output) in javascript template??
or is any way to deploy xaml on javascript??
WinJS seems to have a different API for handling Camera Previews. I'd take a look at this example on MSDN for more details. Namely, in BasicCapture.js, we see the following function, startPreview:
function startPreview() {
displayStatus("Starting preview");
id("btnStartPreview" + scenarioId).disabled = true;
var video = id("previewVideo" + scenarioId);
video.src = URL.createObjectURL(mediaCaptureMgr, { oneTimeOnly: true });
video.play();
displayStatus("Preview started");
getCameraSettings();
// Initialize sliders.
for (var i = 0; i < cameraControlSliders.length; i++) {
cameraControlSliders[i].slider.disabled = false;
initSlider(cameraControlSliders[i]);
}
}
To answer your second question, the only way to load Javascript into a XAML application would be through the WebView control, and even that would not be allowed to directly control the different controls of the XAML UI. If you want to do XAML, you have to stick to C#, VB, or C++.
I'm making a mobile-app using Phonegap and HTML. Now I'm using the google maps/places autocomplete feature. The problem is: if I run it in my browser on my computer everything works fine and I choose a suggestion to use out of the autocomplete list - if I deploy it on my mobile I still get suggestions but I'm not able to tap one. It seems the "suggestion-overlay" is just ignored and I can tap on the page. Is there a possibility to put focus on the list of suggestions or something that way ?
Hope someone can help me. Thanks in advance.
There is indeed a conflict with FastClick and PAC. I found that I needed to add the needsclick class to both the pac-item and all its children.
$(document).on({
'DOMNodeInserted': function() {
$('.pac-item, .pac-item span', this).addClass('needsclick');
}
}, '.pac-container');
There is currently a pull request on github, but this hasn't been merged yet.
However, you can simply use this patched version of fastclick.
The patch adds the excludeNode option which let's you exclude DOM nodes handled by fastclick via regex. This is how I used it to make google autocomplete work with fastclick:
FastClick.attach(document.body, {
excludeNode: '^pac-'
});
This reply may be too late. But might be helpful for others.
I had the same issue and after debugging for hours, I found out this issue was because of adding "FastClick" library. After removing this, it worked as usual.
So for having fastClick and google suggestions, I have added this code in geo autocomplete
jQuery.fn.addGeoComplete = function(e){
var input = this;
$(input).attr("autocomplete" , "off");
var id = input.attr("id");
$(input).on("keypress", function(e){
var input = this;
var defaultBounds = new google.maps.LatLngBounds(
new google.maps.LatLng(37.2555, -121.9245),
new google.maps.LatLng(37.2555, -121.9245));
var options = {
bounds: defaultBounds,
mapkey: "xxx"
};
//Fix for fastclick issue
var g_autocomplete = $("body > .pac-container").filter(":visible");
g_autocomplete.bind('DOMNodeInserted DOMNodeRemoved', function(event) {
$(".pac-item", this).addClass("needsclick");
});
//End of fix
autocomplete = new google.maps.places.Autocomplete(document.getElementById(id), options);
google.maps.event.addListener(autocomplete, 'place_changed', function() {
//Handle place selection
});
});
}
if you are using Framework 7, it has a custom implementation of FastClicks. Instead of the needsclick class, F7 has no-fastclick. The function below is how it is implemented in F7:
function targetNeedsFastClick(el) {
var $el = $(el);
if (el.nodeName.toLowerCase() === 'input' && el.type === 'file') return false;
if ($el.hasClass('no-fastclick') || $el.parents('.no-fastclick').length > 0) return false;
return true;
}
So as suggested in other comments, you will only have to add the .no-fastclick class to .pac-item and in all its children
I was having the same problem,
I realized what the problem was that probably the focusout event of pac-container happens before the tap event of the pac-item (only in phonegap built-in browser).
The only way I could solve this, is to add padding-bottom to the input when it is focused and change the top attribute of the pac-container, so that the pac-container resides within the borders of the input.
Therefore when user clicks on item in list the focusout event is not fired.
It's dirty, but it works
worked perfectly for me :
$(document).on({
'DOMNodeInserted': function() {
$('.pac-item, .pac-item span', this).addClass('needsclick');
}
}, '.pac-container');
Configuration: Cordova / iOS iphone 5
i use FBML for the FB application
I have a flash and the flash suppose to call a javascript on the page. I read so many websites trying to figure it out but still having problem.
Here is the Webpage with the javascript:
<fb:fbjs_bridge/>
<div id="swfContainer"></div>
<script>
// the javascript to call and change the text of ztest001
function callmenow(a) {
var obj = document.getElementById("ztest001");
obj.setTextValue("Calling");
}
// generating the SWF
var swf = document.createElement('fb:swf');
swf.setId('my_swf_id');
swf.setWidth('630');
swf.setHeight('520');
swf.setSWFSrc('http://hollywood-life.madscience-games.com/ztest/test1.swf');
document.getElementById('swfContainer').appendChild(swf);
</script>
<div onclick="callmenow('a')">call me now</div>
<div id="ztest001"> YOo </div>
And here it is the Flash code. (one frame. code is on the frame. with a text box "myvar1")
var connection:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
var connectionName:String = LoaderInfo(this.root.loaderInfo).parameters.fb_local_connection;
connection.allowDomain("apps.facebook.com", "apps.*.facebook.com");
function callFBJS():void{
myvar1.text = "START"; // debugging purpose
if (connectionName) {
myvar1.text = "Connection now"; // debugging purpose
var pArray = ['bs'];
connection.send(connectionName, "callmenow", "callmenow", pArray);
myvar1.text = "SENT";
}
}
callFBJS();
Well, when I test, the flash loads. The code goes through everything and shows "SENT" in the flash text box. However, it doesn't seem like it is calling the javascript and changing the text in the HTML page.
Have I done something wrong? I tried the ExternalInteface.call method but this doesn't work either.
ALSO, when i run it in FireFox, not error popup.
however, when i run it in IE, I got this:
VerifyError: Error #1033: Cpool entry 36 is wrong type.
ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable FBJS is not defined.
Did you try changing:
connection.send(connectionName, "callmenow", "callmenow", pArray);
to
connection.send(connectionName, "callFBJS", "callmenow", pArray);