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.
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My web application has an issue. It breaks while running on Opera + iPhone. How to debug such combination?
I've looked into many online posts and posts that are similar to mine,
but those posts are either inaccurate or outdated, like
How to debug on Opera Mini?
It is easy to reproduce the bug. I am sure i can address the issue if I can observe what happened to the application during the process.
It is a really a margin case. I would be lucky and happy is someone had dealt with it before.
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.
I'm getting a new phone and I am looking to do some programming on it. Python is my language of choice, so I was wondering what phones have support for Python interpreters.
I know, I know, "you program too much already", yeah my girlfriend says that all the time too, but I can't help it.
I'll probably do a lot of on-the-go style simple debugging, and I'd like to also get into programming some simple custom apps to streamline my smartphone workflow.
I see there is support on Android through SL4A and Py4A but I couldn't figure out which version of Python it resembles. I also see that PyS60 on Symbian is available, based on 2.5.4. Also, there's a string of Python-iPhone threads starting here which were very informative but not very current. Lastly I found a cool youtube video of a guy doing something geeky in python on his iPhone.
Yes I am still researching on my own but I figured someone on SO might be able to give me a pointer in the right direction. Which of these options is halfway decent?
Does anyone know which of these is easiest to get started with? How about which is most powerful for development using the native smartphone capabilities? Anything
With regards to Py4A, in view of discussion at the link below, my guess would be Py 2.7.1, 2.7.2.
http://code.google.com/p/python-for-android/issues/detail?id=10&q=python
The Nokia n900 comes with Maemo 5 Linux, and can easily run a full Debian Linux for ARM. It's not locked down in any way. I have one (in the shop, really hope they can fix it) and it's great.
Python? Basically like using it on any desktop Linux distribution.
I intend to start an iphone/android project with the titanium SDK for mobile. Do you know what are the main feature-wise pitfalls to avoid ? what sort of features will be very hard or impossible to achieve ?
I understand that there is a plugin system to circumvent these limitations. Do you have information on that ?
Thank you for your help,
Jerome Wagner
I have yet to find a particular piece of Android functionality that is missing from Titanium. Not sure if widgets are in the current 1.5.1 mobile release or are coming in 1.6. In any case, the coverage is pretty decent, as you will see if you try out the "kitchen sink" app.
But here are some things I find lacking:
Titanium's Android support is still much buggier than iPhone support. For instance, I can't get global events to work properly--that's pretty important functionality.
documentation isn't complete; the API docs are skimpy
you're on your own; Appcelerator employees don't bother to answer questions online (even when they concern obvious bugs on their end), unless you subscribe to a support plan
That said, I've found developing Android apps with Titanium to be much more enjoyable than dealing with the Android SDK!
I agree with most of what #Drew stated above.
The API documentation is for the "most part" pretty complete, yes there are a few missing pieces, but hey the framework is free, they push releases pretty frequently and all the source code is available for you to go through yourself. You also have full access to the Continuous Integration Builds
I believe the 1.6.0 release has addressed additional issues with Andorid support, there is also a bug tracking system for you to investigate and report issues.
You are not on your own any more than with any other similar framework... Occasionally employees will review specific issues that show up in the Q&A Forum but the forum is very active and there is tons of community support. I would be surprised if you could write most of an application from just cutting and pasting from the Q&A questions and you will find the rest in the Kitchen Sink Example or Tweetanium Example Projects.
You asked about a plugin system. Titanium offers the ability to develop your own custom native modules.
The Titanium's Module Developers Guide (PDF) isn't the best, but it will get you started.
As Drew said, many of the Titanium's Android support is buggier compared to iPhone.
Titanium is meant for people who never wanted to learn the native iphone and Android programming. If you know to develop applications using objective C and you wanted to develop applications for iPhone then don’t even think of Titanium, the same case applies to Android too. Only if you are lazy to learn a language, you can opt for Titanium.
1.The size of the Application is a big concern here.
2. Some of the features in Android which was shown to be working in developer reference were not working. Even after being filed as bugs, they were not updated in developer’s reference that it works only in iPhone. For example, “focus” events of the window is handled only in iPhone and never in Android.
To get to know in details, the problems Titanium can bring you read the following post:
http://mobworld.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/titanium-framework/
So in previous questions about iPhone development on Windows, the basic/easy answer has been "just get a mac." However, I noticed a comment that mentioned DragonFireSDK. But no one else said anything about it?
Has anyone tried this? It look pretty legit to me, but I'm new to the iPhone world. I just find it weird that no one has discussed this yet. I mean, it looks like the perfect tools for the Windows users.
Thanks!
Oh yeah....here's the link to DragonFireSDK: DragonFireSDK
EDIT: This app is for my website, We, the Pixels. Any comments on if Dragonfire would be a good fit for an iPhone version of my website? Thanks!
DragonFireSDK is good, I have been developing several apps with it, the first of which is now available, a game called Firefox Fun: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/firefox-fun/id393933733?mt=8
Yes, I use DFSDK and got my apps published to apples appstore using the sdk. they have good API it lets you use c/c++ to create your app.