14 Apr
2010
14 Apr
'10
6:46 p.m.
Hi devs,
It's been reported to me that this feature isn't working. Here are issues I know
about it:
- the pencil icon doesn't appear on Chrome
- foxwiki is in version 1.0b and not even a final 1.0 version
- when you try to install the FF extension it says it's not compatible with FF 3.6.3
(it doesn't work with other FF 3.6 versions either)
- it's a built in feature and it's not working so it's misleading
- doesn't work in IE either
See also xwiki.markmail.org/thread/ychoon432tugvlbm
The main problem is that FoxWiki is not supported by our dev team. Apart from this
it's a very nice to have feature.
Thus we have 2 choices:
- someone volunteers to work on it and make FoxWiki work with FF and IE relatively quickly
since the feature is currently broken
- we move foxwiki to contrib/ and remove that feature (ie. we could make it active only if
the extension is installed for ex)
WDYT?
Thanks
-Vincent
14 Apr
14 Apr
7:11 p.m.
On 04/14/2010 06:46 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi devs,
It's been reported to me that this feature isn't working. Here are issues I know
about it:
- the pencil icon doesn't appear on Chrome
Yes, this was on purpose initially.
- foxwiki is in version 1.0b and not even a final 1.0
version
- when you try to install the FF extension it says it's not compatible with FF 3.6.3
(it doesn't work with other FF 3.6 versions either)
This is hard-coded in the xpi. Re-releasing with another max-version
would probably work.
- it's a built in feature and it's not working
so it's misleading
- doesn't work in IE either
See also xwiki.markmail.org/thread/ychoon432tugvlbm
The main problem is that FoxWiki is not supported by our dev team. Apart from this
it's a very nice to have feature.
I could maintain it, since I know FF Extension development, and it's not
a big deal to do this, it's quite tiny.
Thus we have 2 choices:
- someone volunteers to work on it and make FoxWiki work with FF and IE relatively
quickly since the feature is currently broken
- we move foxwiki to contrib/ and remove that feature (ie. we could make it active only
if the extension is installed for ex)
WDYT?
FoXWiki can only work with FF, since it's a Firefox extension. In IE it
should work as long as a WebDAV client is configured.
However, I think that we should not make the pencil active by default,
so that it requests for FoXWiki to be installed. It should only appear
when FoXWiki is already installed.
For IE, I don't know how to approach it, maybe Florin has some ideas.
The requirement would be to be able to detect somehow if WebDAV is
available.
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Sergiu Dumitriu
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15 Apr
15 Apr
8:48 a.m.
Hi,
Nope, IE should work out of the box, it only requires some javascript work.
A WebDAV client is only required if you need to mount XWiki into your file
system. I have tested this on IE a long time ago and it used to work.
However, recently jerome did some changes to WebDAV UI integration code that
allows admins to selectively disable WebDAV features, may be this is the
reason why it doesn't work on IE oob, jerome should be able to give more
details.
Finally, AFAIK there is absolutely 0 documentation on WebDAV XWiki UI
integration (I think I did not have time for that).
Another problem (not sure about this one) could be that if XE is running
behind an apache webserver (mod_jk) there will be issues since apache might
not forward webdav requests to tomcat by default. A user reported something
like this but I did not have time to look into it.
I know it is my responsibility to work / maintain webdav related work but I
was busy with some other work. If someone could take it over, i would be
glad to help out.
Thanks.
- Asiri
- foxwiki is in version 1.0b and not even a final 1.0
version
One problem is that we don't have full control over the release of FoXWiki
because it is hosted at addons.mozilla.org (as i remember, a release
requires few reviews and so on), and if we are to host it by ourselves, we
need to deploy the xpi file at a ssh secured url (otherwise firefox rejects
the addon as i recall).
See: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2358 a lot of users are
complaining about version incompatibility :(
I did not have much time to work on this and I don't think I will have time
in comming months either. Sergiu, if you have an account at
addons.mozilla.org, i should be able to add you as a FoXWiki author so that
you can work on it.
- when you try to install the FF extension it
says it's not compatible
with FF 3.6.3 (it doesn't work with other FF 3.6
versions either)
This is hard-coded in the xpi. Re-releasing with another max-version
would probably work.
Thus we have 2
choices:
- someone volunteers to work on it and make FoxWiki work with FF and IE
relatively
quickly since the feature is currently broken
- we move foxwiki to contrib/ and remove that
feature (ie. we could make
it active only if the extension is installed for ex)
WDYT?
FoXWiki can only work with FF, since it's a Firefox extension. In IE it
should work as long as a WebDAV client is configured.
8:59 a.m.
PS: FoXWiki source:
http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/xwiki-tools/trunk/foxwiki/
I think Alexandru Cismaru also worked on something related to FoXWiki for
his gsoc project but I cannot find the source code of his project.
- Asiri
11:29 a.m.
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 18:46, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
Hi devs,
It's been reported to me that this feature isn't working. Here are issues I know
about it:
- the pencil icon doesn't appear on Chrome
- foxwiki is in version 1.0b and not even a final 1.0 version
- when you try to install the FF extension it says it's not compatible with FF 3.6.3
(it doesn't work with other FF 3.6 versions either)
Note that you can easily test it using
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6543 to overwrite the
supported version.
- it's a built in feature and it's not working
so it's misleading
- doesn't work in IE either
See also xwiki.markmail.org/thread/ychoon432tugvlbm
The main problem is that FoxWiki is not supported by our dev team. Apart from this
it's a very nice to have feature.
Thus we have 2 choices:
- someone volunteers to work on it and make FoxWiki work with FF and IE relatively
quickly since the feature is currently broken
- we move foxwiki to contrib/ and remove that feature (ie. we could make it active only
if the extension is installed for ex)
WDYT?
Thanks
-Vincent
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