SmartGWT.mobile dev mode

[chrylis]

SmartGWT.mobile currently doesn't work at all with Firefox (in dev or production mode), and only Firefox has a working dev mode plugin for Linux and OS X (Safari, which is recommended on Mac, doesn't have a working plugin as of 5.1). Are there plans for getting SmartGWT.mobile working for Firefox? If not, and in the meantime, are there any dev-mode setups that are known to work on either Linux or Mac?

[Isomorphic]

Safari or Chrome are the ones to use. It's an unfortunate situation, but any time GWT lags the latest release of a browser, we recommend just not updating the browser, or having a copy of an older version available as a parallel install.

As an alternative, some of the GWT developers make available unofficial builds of the plugins which have been tweaked so they aren't detected as incompatible by the latest release of eg Chrome or Safari.

[chrylis]

Any plans for Firefox, or is it off the table for now?

Additionally, while Chrome does appear to at least mostly work, there's an annoying bug (visible with the online showcase) where the tab bar appears below the fold; specifically, the tab pane takes up exactly 100% of the window size, and then the tabs are tacked onto the bottom, requiring constant scrolling back and forth to see the tabs and the NavStack header.

EDIT: This appears to depend on which particular UA you're impersonating, and it works when impersonating the Google Android browser. This caveat would be helpful to have noted in the user_guide.

[Isomorphic]

We don't really want to invest effort in supporting Firefox when it basically doesn't resemble any actually support mobile environment and has all the same issues with timely GWT support. Consider also that GWT SuperDevMode will make this whole issue go away within a couple more releases of GWT.

As far as the Chrome issue, is this something that is an issue with the default UA? Or only arises when you ask desktop Chrome to spoof Android's UA?

[chrylis]

Chrome works when spoofing the Android UA, it's just broken when spoofing the iOS Safari UA. I was doing that to get the server-side redirector to send me to the mobile version of the application, but it looks like I'll just have to actually get the cookie-based site preference working the right way and leave the UA alone. O:-)

[chrylis]

I noted today that Mobile Firefox (aka Fennec) has the exact same display bugs as the desktop version when viewing, e.g., the showcase. This is pretty easy to work around generally (use a different mobile browser), but it would be nice to have it working with the common non-default mobile browsers (Opera, Dolphin...).