[xwiki-devs] Problem with "Edit Attachment" feature
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
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. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
Hi,
- 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.
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.
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.
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
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
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 18:46, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> 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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