One item we have been talking about adding to the nightly builds is a page that loads on launch. This page would thank you for testing WebKit and give you links for certain tasks to help us. This is my concept for the page. Feedback and suggestions to improve this are welcomed. http://colloquy.info/webkit-page.png — Timothy Hatcher
It's gorgeous! Do you have it in HTML/CSS? Since the nightly build application is really just a wrapper around the existing Safari, but pointing to the new frameworks, you might have to figure out how to override the default startup page, probably by passing in some override preferences in the shell script that launches it (See NSArgumentDomain documentation for that...) As far as content goes, you may want to have a reference to the incompatibilities between the current webkit builds and the currently released version of Safari, since those bugs could crop up when one is running the nightly build. Dan Wood On Oct 26, 2005, at 8:49 PM, Timothy Hatcher wrote:
One item we have been talking about adding to the nightly builds is a page that loads on launch. This page would thank you for testing WebKit and give you links for certain tasks to help us. This is my concept for the page. Feedback and suggestions to improve this are welcomed.
http://colloquy.info/webkit-page.png
— Timothy Hatcher
Dan, The nightly build wrapper is a small Python wrapper script like you mention. As far as I can tell the Safari start page is stored in the com.apple.internetconfig domain, which means it's not possible to override it from NSArgumentDomain defaults. It is possible to launch Safari with a *local* page loaded by passing it on the command line -- Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari /path/to/file.html. The idea is to include a file within the WebKit.app wrapper that simply redirects to the real welcome page out on the Internet. Another little feature that I plan to sneak in to the WebKit.app wrapper is notifying the user that their build of WebKit is out of date and pointing them in the direction of a newer build. The easier it is for users to keep up to date, the more useful bug reports WebKit will see :) Regards, Mark Rowe On 27/10/2005, at 18:23 , Dan Wood wrote:
It's gorgeous! Do you have it in HTML/CSS?
Since the nightly build application is really just a wrapper around the existing Safari, but pointing to the new frameworks, you might have to figure out how to override the default startup page, probably by passing in some override preferences in the shell script that launches it (See NSArgumentDomain documentation for that...)
As far as content goes, you may want to have a reference to the incompatibilities between the current webkit builds and the currently released version of Safari, since those bugs could crop up when one is running the nightly build.
Dan Wood
On Oct 26, 2005, at 8:49 PM, Timothy Hatcher wrote:
One item we have been talking about adding to the nightly builds is a page that loads on launch. This page would thank you for testing WebKit and give you links for certain tasks to help us. This is my concept for the page. Feedback and suggestions to improve this are welcomed.
http://colloquy.info/webkit-page.png
— Timothy Hatcher
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Nice work Timothy ad Mark, this actually looks stunning. Opening with a local page sounds more convenient to me, since i have a homepage that i rely on and i download a nightly, well eh, nightly :) Kind regards, Joost -- Joost de Valk #: AlthA on #webkit @ irc.freenode.net @: webkit@joostdevalk.nl W: http://www.joostdevalk.nl "The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders." - Foster's Law On Oct 27, 2005, at 8:50 AM, Mark Rowe wrote:
Dan,
The nightly build wrapper is a small Python wrapper script like you mention. As far as I can tell the Safari start page is stored in the com.apple.internetconfig domain, which means it's not possible to override it from NSArgumentDomain defaults. It is possible to launch Safari with a *local* page loaded by passing it on the command line -- Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari /path/to/ file.html. The idea is to include a file within the WebKit.app wrapper that simply redirects to the real welcome page out on the Internet.
Another little feature that I plan to sneak in to the WebKit.app wrapper is notifying the user that their build of WebKit is out of date and pointing them in the direction of a newer build. The easier it is for users to keep up to date, the more useful bug reports WebKit will see :)
Regards,
Mark Rowe
On 27/10/2005, at 18:23 , Dan Wood wrote:
It's gorgeous! Do you have it in HTML/CSS?
Since the nightly build application is really just a wrapper around the existing Safari, but pointing to the new frameworks, you might have to figure out how to override the default startup page, probably by passing in some override preferences in the shell script that launches it (See NSArgumentDomain documentation for that...)
As far as content goes, you may want to have a reference to the incompatibilities between the current webkit builds and the currently released version of Safari, since those bugs could crop up when one is running the nightly build.
Dan Wood
On Oct 26, 2005, at 8:49 PM, Timothy Hatcher wrote:
One item we have been talking about adding to the nightly builds is a page that loads on launch. This page would thank you for testing WebKit and give you links for certain tasks to help us. This is my concept for the page. Feedback and suggestions to improve this are welcomed.
http://colloquy.info/webkit-page.png
— Timothy Hatcher
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Looks very nice. One thing that could be done, is for only the first launch to show the screen and then fall back to the default home in further launches. Actually this might be a nice thing to have for all new installs of WebKit, when launched from Safari, except the mainline version would have the option of either showing an Apple web page or forwarding to the user's home\ page. Also, for the nightly build version of Safari maybe you could add this as a link in the WebKit application menu. Andreé On 26-Oct-05, at 23:49 , Timothy Hatcher wrote:
One item we have been talking about adding to the nightly builds is a page that loads on launch. This page would thank you for testing WebKit and give you links for certain tasks to help us. This is my concept for the page. Feedback and suggestions to improve this are welcomed.
http://colloquy.info/webkit-page.png
— Timothy Hatcher
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Any progress on this? The sample page looked great, and it was a neat idea. Dave On Oct 26, 2005, at 10:49 PM, Timothy Hatcher wrote:
One item we have been talking about adding to the nightly builds is a page that loads on launch. This page would thank you for testing WebKit and give you links for certain tasks to help us. This is my concept for the page. Feedback and suggestions to improve this are welcomed.
http://colloquy.info/webkit-page.png
— Timothy Hatcher
participants (6)
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André-John Mas
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Dan Wood
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David D. Kilzer
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Joost de Valk
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Mark Rowe
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Timothy Hatcher