Question for Darqui or any other dev

Belexes · #1 09-17-2018, 04:35 PM

I use the Darqui interface and I am a returning player who has discovered a new problem. The problem is not with the ui but you guys seem to have the best knowledge about this stuff so here goes. The eq2i (wikia) website will not display properly on the in-game browser. It doesn't matter if I use the one in the ui or the default one. The website displays properly on a regular browser out of game but not in-game. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Darqwood · #2 09-17-2018, 07:40 PM

The Awesomium browser which is based on Google's Chromium project is exposed to UI authors as a resizable rectangle. Authors can't control how web pages are rendered within that rectangle, and can't substitute a different browser. Possibly the folks at the EQII Wikia site might be able to make some compatibility adjustments to make their pages display better from within the EQII game.

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Suziekew · #3 09-18-2018, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Belexes

I use the Darqui interface and I am a returning player who has discovered a new problem. The problem is not with the ui but you guys seem to have the best knowledge about this stuff so here goes. The eq2i (wikia) website will not display properly on the in-game browser. It doesn't matter if I use the one in the ui or the default one. The website displays properly on a regular browser out of game but not in-game. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I've tried. Here's what I got back from the Wikia/Fandom folk. I'd suggest we all contact these references and see if we can get some action.

Tupka217
Thr eq2 browser is apparently not supported. You can suggest the at least fix this. You can try Special:Contact/feedback or Special:Contact/bug; as it's not a supported browser, I don't think it counts as a bug, but you can probably pick either.

Belexes · #4 09-19-2018, 05:32 PM

Thanks for the suggestion. I did send a request but I'm not holding my breath for a solution. Very disappointing.

Belexes · #5 09-20-2018, 04:20 PM

I received a response from Fandom and they said the browser is based on Chrome 18 which is 6 years old. They are unable to support such an old browser. This might be something you should look into Darq. I would love to see an update for the browser.

**lordebon** · #6 09-20-2018, 06:14 PM

The in-game browser isn't something anyone can really update unfortunately. The code is controlled by the game, as far as the UI is concerned you make the window that goes around it but the actual browser is a black box. Daybreak would need to update it, or wikia would need to stop breaking it with all their ad code... don't hold your breath in either case.

You used to be able to get around some of the issues if you could get logged in and use the old monobook skin, but they dropped that option earlier this year.

Suziekew · #7 09-20-2018, 10:51 PM

Well, as a web developer and architect, I know there are always alternative ways to achieve the same result. This issue is just going to ping pong until someone decides to put down the cheetos, turn off the tv and do some actual coding.

It's not hard to do a better wrapper and I've actually never seen anything so unforgiving. At least, an option to drop the content out of the frame would probably work.

Anyway, maybe if we kick up enough fuss in the Daybreak forum, we'll get their attention. Kind of strange they seem to have just ignored this aspect of the interface for so long.