Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dr J R Stockton Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: Searching the visual appearance of a Web page? Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 23:37:53 +0000 Organization: Home Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <78AX6LG2fM2WFw29@invalid.uk.co.demon.merlyn.invalid> <977b2a8d-ed38-4e1e-9509-1bf20f45936f@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="01da9e6251d9b3ee47bb70bebae42d53"; logging-data="15841"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/hfUNSnF2CZA9aU0Yc7SAlo0aIkLrAlI0=" User-Agent: Turnpike/6.05-S () Cancel-Lock: sha1:T6h9/kFe6tSm6QFEDQU6W7cXRH8= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:29827 In comp.lang.javascript message <977b2a8d-ed38-4e1e-9509-1bf20f45936f@go oglegroups.com>, Thu, 3 Mar 2016 16:27:38, "Michael Haufe (TNO)" posted: >On Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 5:42:47 PM UTC-6, Dr J R Stockton wrote: > >> I'm using WinXP sp3, and reading files into an iframe, directly from the >> disc without any server, WinXP sp3. Early Chrome was OK, but Chrome 4.0 >> & later does not do that, it misapplies "Same domain Policy". Something >> fails in Opera 35, with a decent error message; but Opera 12.18 is OK. >> IE8 is OK. Vivaldi gives a message like Opera 35, then falls over dead. > >You should look at the new standard APIs available: > > Too much new stuff there for me, I fear. I cannot even see whether what is on that page, or an associated page, allows me to open a file by code which uses using a filename string in a way I don't already know. To be fair on Vivaldi, it does not fall over dead in Windows 7, though it also does so when updating itself in Win XP. -- (c) John Stockton, Surrey, UK. ¬@merlyn.demon.co.uk Turnpike v6.05 MIME. Merlyn Web Site < > - FAQish topics, acronyms, & links.