An XAF workaround for 'Prevent this page from creating additional dialogs.'

Mon, 16 May 2016 13:51:00 +0100

Both Chrome and Firefox have a ‘feature’ which allows a user to ignore future calls to confirm(). Once this has been checked, any subsequent calls to confirm() return false immediately without showing the window.

In XAF, this behaviour prevents the application from working correctly. For instance, it becomes impossible to confirm a deletion.

The following controller provides a work around. It injects some javascript into the page wrapping the call to confirm(). The new code detects when the Prevent this page from creating additional dialogs checkbox has been checked and returns true instead. The confirmation window still does not appear, but the XAF application works as if the user had pressed confirm instead of cancel.

A basic Chrome extension - analyze your chess.com games on lichess.org

Fri, 04 Mar 2016 17:41:00 +0100

I’ve been trying to get better at chess by playing on chess.com. I often analyse my games with the help of a computer to see where I made mistakes. My favourite way of doing this is to make use of Lichess.org’s import functionality. The latest version of chess.com has greatly improved its own post game analysis, but I still much prefer Lichess’s. So I would often download the finished game in pgn and upload it to Lichess.

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An XAF workaround for 'Prevent this page from creating additional dialogs.'

A basic Chrome extension - analyze your chess.com games on lichess.org