Hulahop browser screen width XO1.0 vs XO1.5

[George Hunt]

No, I don't think it is a widget, gtk problem -- since I could change the
CSS to correct the problem.

I wrote a javascript fragment:

document.write('width:' + window.screen.width + " height:" +
window.screen.height);

On XO1.0 I got a response: "width:840 height:634" and on XO1.5 I got
"width:1200 height:900"

If this is a known situation, and it is desired for some good reason, I'm
sure people like me can live with it.  Otherwise I think the rendering
engine on 1.0 and 1.5 should come up with similar defaults -- and
considering our installed base-- it should be compatible 800x600.

Persuant to Seth's suggestion, I've discovered that it is possible to write
CSS using percentages rather than absolute pixel dimensions, and circumvent
haveing to make a decision in javascript based upon reported screen
dimension, and load separate CSS pages.

Somebody has cleaned up the webview widget.  I'm having to work around a
problem in build 802 that is fixed in F11 -- In the earlier build the widget
controled it's own visibility by doing 'self.web_view.get_toplevel().hide()'
which made it much more difficult to incorporate in at activity that wanted
to use other widgets as well.

Who's maintaining Hulahop/webview?

George


On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 04:27, George Hunt <georgejhunt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > My activity uses Hulahop Browser for its help system.  The default
> browser
> > on the XO`1.0 seems set up for 800x600.   The CSS width specs  on the
> > functioning HELP activity add up to 800 px wide and everything works out
> ok.
> >
> > But on F11 XO1.5, the same help activity only renders about 2/3 full
> screen.
> > And I'm experiencing similar problems rendering my help pages between 1.0
> > and 1.5.
> >
> > On F11, I believe the default screen width sensed by the xulrunner engine
> is
> > the 1200x900,   the actual screen size.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure there's a way to ask the gecko engine to render on a
> 800x600
> > screen, or alternatively to ask gecko on the XO1.0 to render on a
> 1200x900
> > surface.
> >
> > But I don't know XUL well and I feel I'd be wasting my time learning
> about
> > how to set up gecko, if someone already knows how to solve this one.  I'd
> be
> > willing to modify HELP activity, once we I find an acceptable solution.
>
> Hmm, is the problem that the html content doesn't cover the whole
> hulahop area, or that the hulahop widget doesn't fill the whole
> screen?
>
> If the former, it's a matter of html. If the latter, hulahop is a
> normal gtk widget and you should use the gtk api to make what you
> want. Hulahop should behave the same as a gtk.Button in this regard,
>
> HTH,
>
> Tomeu
>
> > George
> >
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