Webcat

Hey Llelectronics, thanks for the reply.

It is a totally different codebase that also went through rewrites. Webcat on the other hand never had a major rewrite and the extra toolbar is very static and adding a scrolling element would break the quick navigation option totally.

Understood. It was worth asking though because there are so many great (and non-redundant) features in both browsers. The parallel between Web Pirate and Webcat is kind of natural because they have been the two major non-official browsers for some years now.

I don't like to blow up the code with configurable toolbars as it would be another codepath to support with lots of potential stuff breaking. I am thinking about it though. Maybe long pressing here makes more sense and works better for the quick extra toolbar access instead of using the goto button. I will test several options here and will decide what to do then.

Looking forward to seeing/testing what you'll come up with.

Tested it here on the Jolla C and it works just like it should

Weird, I tested again and it still rotates despite lock mode in mine. I suppose it may conflict with one of those "rotate everything" patches? The flavor I'm using is "Allow any rotation", which works quite well. I have a "Lock rotation" button in my Powermenu2 screen and it does lock the rotation system wide, but when in rotation-free mode (disabling this toggle in Powermenu2), I can see that the Webcat's lock has no effect.

About the text input never had and issue with this. Writing and reading text works just fine. Though I will take a look at potential improements

Surely it works for short messages, but it is not user-friendly, and bigger problems start to appear for longer messages such as these: you can't scroll the text field so if there's more text than the default field size can show, you are screwed unless you have a keyboard with arrow keys; the UI scaling is inconvenient, so are the text-selection and copy-pasting mechanisms, and you may touch a link you didn't want to activate when struggling with the zoom level and view or when placing your cursor.

My previous wall text here looks like this and cannot be edited, while it looks like this in Storeman or Web Pirate, making it not only editable, but convenient to edit (scrolling, UI is a lot more responsive, no risk of clicking on a link by mistake while trying to zoom in and move the view, Sailfish text selection mechanism, etc.). This feature is rarely seen in browsers even on Android, so I'm guessing it's not so easy, but it makes typing in a text field as easy and hassle-free as typing a SMS. It's great in my opinion.

Thanks for the git update! I will try it if I find the time before you push it to master (I have visitors at the moment so I'm rarely on the computer), but otherwise I'll be happy to test it when it hits OpenRepos.

(Also, maybe it would be relevant to continue this discussion in the Webcat thread on TMO? Openrepos's nested view is starting to create very narrow text blocks.)

Wed, 2017/08/23 - 19:21

Uploaded first changes like hiding the favoriticon by default and the proposed splitview in landscape mode on bookmarksmenu. All on git already if you like to test.

Thu, 2017/08/03 - 02:17

Hi, thanks for the great app.

Unfortunately, well actually rather often, the app locks up and needs to be killed for various sites. I use the stock browser as my alternative

Thu, 2017/08/03 - 10:13

That is unfortunate indeed.

I use my app every day and don't have this problem on the sites I visit regulary.

The next version will have a automatic recovery if the underlying Webkit engine crashes and reloads the site then.

Mon, 2017/06/05 - 03:23

Hi,

Thanks for the update. I have the issue where if I have webcat open and I try to open another link via an external app - Instagram, Twitter, the link isn't opened in Webcat. Nothing happens. I have to close and reopen webcat for it to opoen the link

Mon, 2017/06/05 - 10:42

How did you set webcat as default browser?

If you use the --set-default option on harbour-webcat it should correctly set the default browser with the ability to open up links even if the browser is opened already.

Mon, 2017/06/05 - 15:56

Um - via your app! - https://openrepos.net/content/llelectronics/mimer

Mon, 2017/06/05 - 16:06

Yeah that won't work as it needs a Dbus service for such a thing to work (open application getting the request of opening a file or url).

That's why there exists the --set-default parameter for webcat.

Tue, 2017/06/06 - 01:27

ahah! That makes sense. So is that parameter via the command line or editing the template for the icon on the desktop ?

Thanks

Tue, 2017/06/06 - 10:48

It is a command line argument. You only need to run it once. It will only set the browser as default and exit immediately.

I had a button the settings for this but Jolla did not like it so I had to remove it from the version to get into harbour.

The also claimed to have something in the works for mimetypes and such though that is more than 2 years ago now :(

Wed, 2017/06/07 - 00:36

Got it! Thanks

Qleg

Tue, 2017/05/30 - 19:50

I can't login via web.skype.com. Is it possible to login or not?

Tue, 2017/05/30 - 20:11

Not supported by QtWebkit. So no does not work.

Qleg

Wed, 2017/05/31 - 06:02

Thanks. but this is :-(

olf

Thu, 2017/05/04 - 00:07

Maybe the maintained WebKit comes handy: [Qt-Development] QtWebKit is coming back (part 2)

qiang1315231

Sat, 2016/12/24 - 20:21

Hi! Can you add www.baidu.com engine， please?

Thu, 2017/02/09 - 16:25

Added Baidu search now on git. Should be available with the next release.

naalaa

Mon, 2016/12/19 - 12:13

Hallo llelectronics, I want to spend some money for your good work, but the paypal Button does not work.

This information appears, when I click the button: "Some required information is missing or incomplete. Please correct your entries and try again."

Is it possible to fix it?

Mon, 2016/12/19 - 12:40

It is working fine here. Tested it with a private window. Though the mobile version might not work in Webcat :(
So you need a laptop or pc for it to work or use the Sailfish-Browser.

I hope the QtWebkit 5.6 Update for SailfishOS will bring in support for newer webstandards which make that work aswell.

Kabouik

Mon, 2016/08/08 - 02:11

For some reason, the orientation lock button of the extra toolbar has no effect on my Jolla C, Webcat still rotates. Note that the splitview works in portrait too, so Webcat might fail figuring in what orientation it is. I haven't tested on my Jolla. Is it a known issue?

Schturman

Thu, 2016/03/10 - 09:58

Hi. Please add possibility to use Whatsapp Web (web.whatsapp.com) on the tablet version. Thanks.

Fri, 2016/03/11 - 14:01

If I find a way. Using a different user agent seems not to work.

hoodlum

Sat, 2016/03/05 - 19:14

v 2.2 nice!

Getmantsev

Thu, 2015/10/15 - 16:20

Whether in the browser, the text wrapping feature to make it easier to read messages on the forums?

Thu, 2015/10/15 - 18:34

Normally this feature needs to be implemented into the web engine. The Qt5 WebKit web engine however does not have this feature.

So unfortunately I cannot implement that. I advise to use the landscape orientation when on forums or try the reader mode which works on certain types of forums.

dglent

Sun, 2015/05/10 - 08:50

Very nice program, thanks!

delilat

Sun, 2015/02/01 - 00:40

Any chance of integrating Tor?

Sun, 2015/02/01 - 01:37

I don't see a way currently.
It needs first proxy support of some sort I guess.

eson

Sun, 2014/10/19 - 09:06

I have this script on my web site, to redirect mobile phones, but it doesn't work with Webcat. What can I do to make it work? Does it need changes to Webcat config, or do I have to change my script?

<script> if (screen.width <= 320) { window.location = 'http://www.mymobilesite.com'; } </script>

Mariusmssj

Mon, 2014/11/03 - 11:57