I recently developed a cross-browser extension using crossrider.com, it seemed like a reasonable choice of "framework" with multiple recommendations in blogs, etc.
The trouble is crossrider also run an ad network and it seems they're sending browser meta data to that network from all their browser plugins. Sophos are blocking their use (although it is possible to add an exception). Chrome is now also blocking the installation of staging versions of your extension during development.
I would love to hear from crossrider but haven't had a reply to my emails.
So my question is can anyone recommend an alternative framework for cross-browser extension development.
You can try Kango (kangoextensions.com) but beware, theres not alot of help available. That being said, its a fairly simple framework that works for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Opera. They used to offer IE support for a fee but they seem to have stopped that now.
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I am developing a cross browser plugin for document viewing (.pdf, .doc, .xls, .mht, .tiff, .dwg). It needs to be a plugin and not the extension. Whatever i try to search takes me to the links for extensions and not for plugins. I found NPAPI as cross platform plugin architecture but soon found out that major browsers have planned to depreciate and stop the development support, Chrome is one of them. I have been searching from last 3 days and finding myself in no man's land.
I intend to develop the tool as a business requirement and not use some already developed software tools like quickview. Please provide some good links to the cross browser plugin development. A little help will mean a lot. Thank you
The only truly cross-browser technology, supported by all the major browsers, are standardized or standards-track web technologies. If you want something that works in all browsers, you'll need to develop using the technologies that browsers are designed and intended to support.
The reason you aren't finding any resources for doing what you describe is that there's no way to do it.
Sorry for this very basic question but it's important to know.
I never used this kind of framework before and i am interested by trying ionic !
We can build html5/AngularJS apps with this framework, but is it only to generate native code for mobile apps or can we also use our code for the web app (should we maintain 2 different code ?) ?
Check out the browser support section
Ionic is focused on building native/hybrid mobile apps rather than
mobile websites.
While you can get support from webkit, there isn't much support for other desktop browsers because, well it's just not what we want to focus on :)
It is browser competible, however not officially supported.
Does anybody know if there are some basic problems using a firebreath-built plugin on IE10?
A plugin that I built using FB 1.6 that works fine on IE9 on Windows 7, no longer works on IE10 on Windows 8 classic desktop. I suspect some issue with the ActiveX interface. I installed Chrome on Win8 classic and the plugin works OK on that browser.
Admittedly, I don't have many debugging details yet. But I wanted to see if there were any general issues I should be aware of before diving through the FB code.
Thanks very much.
Bob
There are no fundamental incompatibilities that I'm aware of, however our plugin does seem to have some drawing issues in IE10 that I haven't had the luxury of tracking down yet.
If you could be more specific about what "no longer works" means it might be easier to give you some advice.
Does it fail to load? Fail to talk to javascript? Fail to draw (like ours)? Crash the browser? Curdle your milk and demagnetize your credit cards? Sing Beatles songs out of tune?
Without some indication of what exactly is going wrong it's hard to know what to tell you.
I can't seem to find a good answer to this anywhere. When using the "none / custom" mobile app service in the configuration for MobileESP in Joomla! it seems like you are required to enter the "device detection functions used".
Instead of entering every mobile device specifically (windows phone 7 os, ios, blackberry etc), isn't there a single setting that covers "all" mobile devices? I haven't been able to find that, but kind of expected it to exist. If not I'd be pretty disappointed...
I have not installed the Weever App, because the only thing I need is to redirect to a mobile site and support mobile devices to also view the full version (by adding a url parameter like "?full=1").
Any help will be appreciated! I have very little PHP experience, and even though I know you can add this functionality with a bit of PHP code in the header I'd rather just use a plugin for now.
Have you contacted the Weever folks yet? That would be the best place to start first.
I'm the founder and maintainer of the MobileESP code library. However, I'm not familiar with how Weever has integrated MobileESP support into their plugin.
If you were interested in MobileESP all by itself, then I would suggest you use one of the generic detection methods, depending on your goals. Specifically:
DetectIphoneTier(): Use this only if you want to detect modern touchscreen smartphones like iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, etc.
DetectMobileQuick(): Use this if you want any mobile phone, including old BlackBerry and Symbian smartphones as well as feature phones.
Links:
Weever on Joomla: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/mobile/mobile-apps/17890
MobileESP API reference: http://blog.mobileesp.com/?page_id=53
We are building a corporate web application that needs to run on every device available out there (on desktops, laptops, iPads, smart phones) etc.
May of the things we need to do in the app (e.g. access local file-system) cannot be done by traditional ways in javascript due to security implications.
Now, we are evaluating various options on how to do accomplish these tasks in a way that needs minimium effort duplication across devices.
The options are are evaluating have mainly narrowed down to Applets/NPAPI plugins for browsers. I know neither Android nor iPad support Applets currently (but Android 2.2 will, is that correct)??
The safest bet I see now is to create a NPAPI plugin for browsers (except IE which would need something based off Active-X).
So, are NPAPI plugins supported by Android/iPad/iPhone browsers as they are for PC based browsers?
Are there any chances Applets would be available for all these platforms in the near future?
Is there a better option available?
Plugins and Applets are not and will not be supported in iOS any time soon. Also, there is no file system access on an iPad/iPhone unless it is jailbroken.