Suppose an app has a webview that uses JQuery for example.
The server delivers the page with appropriate links to load JQuery, and the view works fine, but I would like it to not need to download JQuery (yes it may be cached, but it won't be the first time the app runs and I would rather not count on it)
So I can include the JQuery files with the app, but then how should I embed the links?
The server certainly doesn't know the bundle path.
I thought I could load the url into a string and then replace the JQuery paths with the local paths before displaying in the webview.
Is there an easier way?
You can use relative paths for jQuery and set the baseURL to the bundle path. However that requires that all resources are in the bundle directory (except those which are referenced by an absolute path).
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I made a custom html file for my Unity web project. Though after building my project, it opens the default pre-made one. Is there a way to make Unity open my own html file instead of the default one?
You're looking for the Web Player Templates manual page.
In your Assets folder, create a folder named WebPlayerTemplates, and put your template in there. You'll need an HTML file. To help make this slightly easier, Unity will look in that HTML for certain tokens that it can replace with data from the project.
For example, one such tag is %UNITY_WEB_PATH%, which will be replaced with the path to your built project file.
Some tags include:
UNITY_WEB_NAME Name of the webplayer.
UNITY_WIDTH UNITY_HEIGHT Onscreen width and height of the player in
pixels.
UNITY_WEB_PATH Local path to the webplayer file.
UNITY_UNITYOBJECT_URL In the usual case where the page will download
UnityObject2.js from the Unity’s website (ie, the Offline Deployment
option is disabled), this tag will provide the download URL.
UNITY_UNITYOBJECT_DEPENDENCIES The UnityObject2.js have dependencies
and this tag will be replaced with the needed dependencies for it to
work properly.
In every deployment I've seen, the WebPlayer plugin is is launched via JavaScript, by instantiating a UnityObject2 and calling its initPlugin method:
var u = new UnityObject2();
u.initPlugin(jQuery("#unityPlayer")[0], "Example.unity3d");
The above assumes that you have a div with id #unityPlayer, and that Example.unity3d is a valid path to your Unity build file.
In practice, though, I recommend working from Unity's generated HTML files; they include some failsafes for cases where the WebPlayer plugin isn't installed or fails to load. The manual page linked above also has HTML source examples which include some of those special tags.
UnityObject2 does have some advanced features, which are also documented in the manual. If your game needs to communicate with the outer web page, that is also possible.
I am developing an application for a client where a requirement is that a series of complex (multi-file, JS, CSS, etc), websites must be presented offline, without any web connection required at all.
So I have all of the HTML content folders, and can add them into my XCode project... but now I need to show them.
The UIWebView is fine when you just have one HTML file... but the relative paths for the JS and CSS do not translate over.
What is the best way to do this. I've seen a couple of potential choices. One way is to run a super basic web server locally, dump all the files into /documents (or thereabouts) and serve it from there... the second is to somehow make UIWebView re-interpret the paths so that they point to the right place locally... which I am not sure if it's possible but I've seen it alluded to.
Seems like a lot of people just cover loading a single UIWebView page, and not so much discussing how to deal with CSS/JS dependencies.
Anyone have any bright ideas, links, etc?
Thanks
I think that if you add your HTML/CSS/JS tree to your Xcode project and select "Create folder references for any added folder" (instead of "Recursively create groups for any added folders"), then your bundle will contain the HTML/CSS/JS folder hierarchy (instead of the flattened-out list of all files). This would preserve relative paths.
As to the "reinterpreting" point, you can define
– webView:shouldStartLoadWithRequest:navigationType:
in your UIWebViewDelegate to intercept any attempt at loading any file. There you can change the url on the fly.
Also, have a look at this interesting article by Rob Napier: Drop-in offline caching for UIWebView.
I would like to save a .html webpage with AFNetworking, but would also like to save the resources (such as .css files, .js files, images etc) within the webpage so that the whole webpage can be viewed offline.
Is this possible with AFNetworking, and how would I do it? Could a short example be posted please?
Thanks!
AFNetworking is not necessary to do this. Instead, what you want to do is use an NSURLCache subclass that supports disk cacheing (such as Peter Steinberger's fork of SDURLCache). With that in place, just load up a URL using a UIWebView (this may not necessarily have to be displayed to a user), and subsequent loads should use that local cache.
At the very least, do not waste your time trying to write something on your own to download assets on a webpage. This process requires a web browser (which UIWebView qualifies as) to determine everything needed to load.
Is it possible to intercept image load requests in WebView before they are actually started and modify their URLs?
For example, I have
mWebView.loadUrl(myUrl);
In onLoadResources event I can see URLs, but I can't modify them?
The thing is I am working on application that loads html content from remote location. For some reason author excluded image path and in img src he just have file name. Existing iPhone application is using this html content and I assume the content is build the way that is the best for iPhone. So, I need somehow to figure how to alter these paths. For example, if I choose to download all images first, I would need to alter path and add file:///... in front of image.jpg name.
Thanks.
you can use onLoadResource although are not only images but any resource loaded like javascript and css
I've build a mobile site using jQTouch, and now I've been working to get that same site working with PhoneGap. For PhoneGap, I've moved most all of the assets (pages, images, JS, CSS, etc.) into the www directory, but I still need to load some dynamic content via Ajax. From the mobile site, I'm using relative URLs to load additional content. However, with PhoneGap, I haven't found a way to use relative URLs to access my mobile site and have been forced to use absolute URLs. My question is this: Is there a way to use relative URLs with PhoneGap? Maybe something like setting a base URL during the PhoneGap initialization?
When using PhoneGap the main files will be on the phone so relative files will be relative to the location on the phone.
If you need to access a file on a remote server (your mobile site) then it must be specified absolutely.
If your main HTML page within your PhoneGap app is at file://www/index.html and you try and access a relative file (say "logo.png") and so specify <img src="logo.png" /> you're really getting it from file://www/logo.png.
If you actually wanted the version of logo.png which is actually on your remote website, you have to provide the full (absolute) path or there's no way for the browser to know that when you specify "logo.png" you mean the one at "http://www.your-site.com/logo.png".
You can try using the <base> tag. This will set your Base URL to whatever you need:
<base href="http://yourdomain.com/">
<script src="js/remotescript.js"></script>
Note this means now your local scripts need to be in absolute form:
<script src="http://localhost/js/phonegap.js"></script>
See this other question for more info regarding this note. The guy there suggests to prepend a dot (.) before the local relative URL, though I didn't test this:
<script src="./js/phonegap.js"></script>
I know this is 6/7 years old, but for any others arriving here for the same question...
Here's a solution, since there isn't a more "packaged" one:
3 quick steps:
1) Store your site domain in a global javascript variable
var currentloc = 'https://example.com'
2) Use temporary variable to add your relative path to currentloc
var relpath = '/need/jsonex'
var ajaxcall = currentloc + relpath
$.ajax({...
3) Adjust currentloc if you do change the supposed "location" that you're calling relative path from on site
currentloc = currentloc + '/new/path'
** just remember if you make currentloc a global variable you need to keep track of these changes.
Hope this helps.