HtmlViewer oddity on Mac vs Windows

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OK just wanted to know if this is a common issue. I am viewing a forum using the Webkit Html viewer.

On Windows, I can click the add attachment button which uses Javascript I am sure and a WebKit new dialog pops up allowing me to select a file for upload. On Mac clicking the same button does absolutely nothing. But all other Javascript works, so I don’t think this is a Javascript issue but a Webkit one.

Using a regular browser ie Chrome on Mac this works, it’s just the HtmlViewer on Mac, exact same code on both the Windows & Mac HTML viewer.

Anyway to test where this is failing at, or it just an issue with Webkit on Mac not allowing dialog popups from the Htmlviewer?

Update: Same issue with Native htmlviewer as well not just WEBKIT so it’s a Mac thing.

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the webkit setting does not apply to macOS so either way you’re using the native on macOS

see http://documentation.xojo.com/index.php/HTMLViewer.Renderer

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Well thats good to know, not sure how I never seen that before. So again it’s a Mac thing because it works fine with Webkit on Windows.

[quote=338137:@Norman Palardy]the webkit setting does not apply to macOS so either way you’re using the native on macOS

see http://documentation.xojo.com/index.php/HTMLViewer.Renderer[/quote]

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Possibly security settings on macOS locking things down

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You mentioned it worked in Chrome, but Chrome uses its own renderer… Does it work in Safari?

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Tested in Safari, it works as it should but within htmlviewer it never opens the file selector dialog to upload files.

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Willing to share the link/code?

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On Mac you need to implement the WebUIDelegate to get the dialogs working.
e.g. with MBS Plugins via WebUIDelegateMBS class.

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Awesome Christian, I’ll try that, since I own your plugin pack this is good news. Shao no code really just the hmlviewer being used, the link is behind a protected httpd authentication site so its not publicly reachable but its just a forum that has upload attachments and so on and the dialog fails to appear.

[quote=338317:@Christian Schmitz]On Mac you need to implement the WebUIDelegate to get the dialogs working.
e.g. with MBS Plugins via WebUIDelegateMBS class.[/quote]