Re: HTML Slidy remote - a Presentation API demo

Hi Francois,

> I see the Chromium build in the repo is 7 months old. Could it be that the build uses a version of Chromium that does not yet support Promises (added end of last year AFAICT)?
> http://www.chromium.org/developers/calendar
> http://www.chromestatus.com/features

It is a bit old indeed. I’ll try to find the time to port the patches to a recent version and release newer builds. 

> The main difference I can think of between this code and the code of the video demo otherwise is that the "window.open" call occurs in an asynchronous callback as opposed to as a synchronous response to user input (which explains why the pop-up window will be blocked by default).

> The messages logged to the console on the receiver side should look like:
> [[
> code is running in a receiver app
> dispatch "present" message
> open slideshow at "https://[...]"
> ]]

I saw only the first two msgs.

> I'll try to:
> - improve the messages logged to help with debugging
> - find time to setup a Linux environment
> - add the required polyfills to support Promises or drop them altogether.
> 
> Can you confirm it works correctly (with a pop-up window that is) with a regular Google Chrome on a Mac?

On Release Chrome, unfortunately not, the window opens, and the title changes to HTML Slidy Receiver (so, it’s certainly loading something), but then it stays white. But I can debug it and look into what’s going on tomorrow for a while as well, no worries.

>> Together with Anssi’s demo for video file playback, how about merging Intel’s OTC demos and yours under
>> http://webscreens.github.io/demo/ ?
> 
> That would make a lot of sense to me, yes :)
> I'll get back to you once I have prepared a merged version of the demos.

If you can take over merging them, that’s even better. Thanks!

Dominik

Received on Tuesday, 22 July 2014 15:50:14 UTC