Webcat

Not really... It is your qtwebkit ;) i just wanted to have a more native useragent without android and more webkit like

tcs

Tue, 2018/06/19 - 18:57

Hello, what do you think about this useragent? Mozilla/5.0 (Maemo; Linux; U; Jolla; Sailfish; Mobile) AppleWebKit/602.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Webcat/3.0.0 Mobile Safari/602.1

Tue, 2018/06/19 - 20:40

Interesting. Does it change anything drastically on some sites though? With which qtwebkit version did you test it?

Vieno

Tue, 2018/06/19 - 17:55

This seems to be a monster update. Thanks a lot.

Sat, 2018/05/19 - 14:51

Yeah you can find it here: https://www.transifex.com/sailfishos-apps-1/webcat/

Ingvix

Mon, 2018/04/30 - 01:42

Is it just the current state of the webkit that it gives a very laggy scrolling? All the webkit browsers seem to do that while default browser scrolls nice and easy whilst being slower to load heavier pages where webkit shines.

Mon, 2018/04/30 - 02:05

You are using webcat with the recommended QtWebkit version linked in the description?

Ingvix

Mon, 2018/04/30 - 11:28

No, I wasn't. Now I tried it though but it left webcat all white and no pages would show. Does it require some kind of configuring? I'm on Xperia X.

Mon, 2018/04/30 - 11:41

Then I think you might've done something wrong.
Execute it from a terminal to see the error message.

Ingvix

Mon, 2018/04/30 - 14:12

EDIT: Got it to work. Had to refresh and update some other webkit packages. Scrolling is a smoother now.

Wed, 2018/02/28 - 06:23

I'm a bit lost regarding which rpms to download for upgrading Qtwebkit. Some comments above say it should be 10.43.1 and not a newer version, but this version is not available in the link supplied.

I totally concur with Olf that a metapackage here would have been more convenient, especially as WebCat seems to perform better in all regards with this upgrade. Few people will go through the hassle of manually picking 5 rpms from a website and then manually installing them now that we are all used to using convenient stores like Storeman, and even if one wants to do it like me, it seems the right packages are not on the website anymore.

This is a pity if the best performance and functionality are to be expected with these packages. In any case, thanks again for the great work. I hope I can manage to upgrade Qtwebkit to the right version and enjoy the perfect WebCat experience.

[Edit] My bad, it seems the link in the description now points to an archive and not the list of packages seen in the comments.

Wed, 2018/02/28 - 11:18

You are right. Especially as the mer obs contains sometimes only dev builds that might not even work.

The reason I hesitated back then and also now to upload stuff here is because I fear the newer packages might be not 100% compatible. Especially when it comes to the account creation/login in settings that I cannot update test all to make sure it is working with my qtwebkit upgrade. The same goes for some other third party apps using this qtwebkit.

So if I add those packages here it needs to be with a big fat disclaimer.

Wed, 2018/02/28 - 15:31

You got my vote for packages here + scary disclaimer, that would be the most convenient I think, and it might actually be less error prone from a user point of view (no risks of installing wrong versions as Olf mentioned).

olf

Sun, 2018/03/04 - 00:40

Kudos to llelectronics for publishing his QtWebkit 5.212 RPMs in a separate repository at OpenRepos.

~~@llelectronics, can you please update the link to your Mer-OBS repo in WebCat's description above with https://openrepos.net/content/llelectronics/qtwebkit-5212~~

Thu, 2018/03/01 - 02:59

done

Fri, 2018/03/02 - 05:27

Thanks llelectronics for putting the packages on Openrepos! I wish they could install from the Storeman or Warehouse but it seems they still have to be downloaded manually, right? At least I had to, but that might be because I already had the previous dev packages installed manually from some months ago.

Regarding the disclaimer you've put on the corresponding page:

You need to install the original packages in order to upgrade to a new SailfishOS release.

Do you think it might be the issue I'm having here (last paragraph of this post)? If so, would you mind adding in the Qtwebkit and Webcat descriptions the command lines to revert back to vanilla Qtwebkit prior to a SF upgrade?

Fri, 2018/03/02 - 00:34

Yes this is the issue. Please use pkcon download foldertodownloadto packagenames

to download the original jolla rpms and install them.

Fri, 2018/03/02 - 16:20

Thanks a lot for the tip. Hope it will fix my upgrade issue. Somehow I just managed to find libqtwebkit5-5.6.2+git5-1.3.1.armv7hl.rpm and qt5-5.6.3+git2-1.3.1.src.rpm using pkcon download *qt* (or variants like *libqt*). Am I missing something? I assumed I would find 5 rpms like in the Dev version in your other package.

Sorry to discuss that here and not in the Qtwebkit comments, but this is closely related to Webcat and it will be useful to others to find the information here.

Fri, 2018/03/02 - 16:49

You should find all packages. Make sure to have a fresh cache (devel-su pkcon refresh)

0rion

Tue, 2018/01/16 - 23:38

No webbrowser on Sailfish can properly display the website http://przystanki.bialystok.pl/

I hoped Webcat could do it... :(

Tue, 2018/01/16 - 23:49

Looks almost fine to me on my tablet with QtWebkit 5.212 as backend for webcat. Only the search icon is not showing up for some reason. The rest works fine though on my initial test. Or is there anything special I should test on this site?

0rion

Thu, 2018/01/18 - 23:07

Very strange. I checked again and I can't search in any field (search icon appears but keyboard doesn't). I mean, I can't enter for example bus stop number or street name.

Webcat 2.9.7 with default settings, Intex Aquafish, Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7

Thu, 2018/01/18 - 23:23

You are right this is indeed not working. I can get to the searchbar and list but searching clears the list completely with Qt 5.212.

So I think this website is not compatible with Qtwebkit. There is nothing I can do about it. You could report this bug to qtwebkit 5.212 itself and maybe they are able to fix it.

objectifnul

Thu, 2018/01/04 - 16:57

How do I enable/disable javascript in webcat? Didn't see it in settings.

Thu, 2018/01/04 - 17:24

It is indeed not possible as I don't offer that in settings.

skyjumper

Mon, 2017/10/02 - 06:48

Hi,

Are you able to add cookie control? I know we can delete them, but the ability to control session and third party cookies would be great.

Thanks

ps and a small thing - it should be "open a url", not "open an url"

Tue, 2017/10/10 - 01:19

I currently don't see a way to distinguish between them with API QtWebkit offers.

olf

Tue, 2017/10/03 - 03:36

"u" is a vowel, not a consonant, right?
So why should it not be "an u..."?

skyjumper

Tue, 2017/10/03 - 05:45

That's because of the lovely intricacies of the English language. Because the U in url sounds like a consonant - y, we use "a" instead of "an".

olf

Sat, 2017/10/07 - 01:00