[haiku] Re: Requesting someone to make a simple javascript page for use with BeZilla builds.

  • From: <mathewblack@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 23:44:20 +0100

I might have already replied, silly webmail. If so sorry.

but I've attached a html file that works fine for firefox.

Mathew.
---- Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Ryan Leavengood<leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I'll work on it and should have something in half an hour.
> 
> Turns out this is more difficult than I thought. The tricky part is
> determining if a local file exists. XmlHTTPRequest is denied from
> arbitrarily opening local files (even from within a local file) so
> that won't work. Using some Firefox specific code (that uses XPCom) to
> see if a local file exists causes a big ugly confirmation dialog to
> come up.
> 
> Unless someone knows other tricks I'm not sure how to get this to work 
> smoothly.
> 
> Another option is to just add a default welcome.html file in Haiku
> which redirects to the online Welcome page and then use that as the
> home page. If the Welcome package is installed it should overwrite
> that default file.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Ryan
>
Title: Welcome to Haiku!

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