BTW… Thanks Bob for solving Richard's issue with NuVoc on jios. You made a neater job of it than I could ever have done.
Ian On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 at 23:25, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > Richard wrote: > > Sorry to have troubled you. > > Not at all. I'm grateful. I'm collecting reasons for eliminating WKWebView > altogether from jios. > > Jios uses Apple's new(ish) WKWebView in the Info scene to display NuVoc. > > https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/112/the-ultimate-guide-to-wkwebview > > It replaces UIWebView (deprecated) as was used in the old j701 app. > See: > > https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/replacing_uiwebview_in_your_app > -which makes for depressing reading. > > WKWebView is a Swiss Army knife for rendering html in any context, or > displaying webby formats like SVG or PDF. Once it looked to me like a dream > object: capable of any graphic effect jios users could wish for. Now I see > it as a Swiss Navy marlinspike. It has an excuse for refusing to do > whatever the user wants – all in the name of security. > > FYI… > the jios Edit scene uses (by default) the default jqt color scheme. But > you can make it use the NuVoc color scheme: > SYNTAX_COLOR_SCHEME_i_ =: 2 NB. colors scraped from NuVoc portal > or: > SYNTAX_COLOR_SCHEME_i_ =: 3 NB. nearest system colors > I prefer the jqt scheme myself: > SYNTAX_COLOR_SCHEME_i_ =: 1 > because with the NuVoc schemes the noun/control/string colours are too > close for me. But newcomers to J may find them useful. > > Ian Clark > > On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 at 20:00, Richard Donovan <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Found it! >> >> I went through all the Safari settings in my iPad and discovered that in >> the setting “Automatically use reader on” I had somehow included >> code.jsoftware.com! >> >> I switched that setting to off and all is fine! >> >> Sorry to have troubled you. >> >> Richard >> >> > On 24 Apr 2023, at 18:26, 'robert therriault' via Programming < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Hi Richard, >> > >> > I am not seeing this behaviour when I access NuVoc through the newest >> version of iOS, through J9.4 on my Mac or directly through the Safari, >> Firefox or Chrome browsers. Unfortunately, I don't have a Windows machine, >> so I cant test for Windows 10. >> > >> > When you go to the NuVoc page on the wiki directly through your browser >> (not through J), do you see the same behaviour? If so, it would not seem to >> be a J problem and may be an issue with the browser. >> > >> > Suggestions would be to restart your browser and see if this clears up >> the problem. Clear your cache to see if there may be corrupted CSS that >> needs to be replaced with a clean version. Try a different browser, if you >> have one available this might be the easiest test. >> > >> > Let me know how you make out. Losing the colour code of NuVoc is >> certainly not part of our plan for the wiki. >> > >> > Cheers, bob >> > >> >> On Apr 24, 2023, at 10:03, Richard Donovan <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi Bob >> >> >> >> I am running latest J level on latest version of iOS although the same >> comments apply in Windows 10. >> >> >> >> Once I arrive at the NUVOC entry page >> https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NuVoc I am presented with the old >> familiar (colourful) page but almost instantly this is replaced by what I >> assume is a later version, which seems to contain the same data but the >> colour coding is replaced by blue hypertext links. >> >> >> >> Unfortunately the centre of the new page describes the colour coding >> for each part of speech, whereas that colour coding no longer exists!!! >> >> >> >> Is this a setting I have wrong? Why do I see the colourful page (which >> I prefer) for only a split second before the new uncoloured version >> overwrites it? >> >> >> >> Is this a bug or a feature? >> >> >> >> Cheers, Richard Donovan >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
