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Combination code editor (ACE) and Preview for quick feedback prototyping
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Flaky preview on Chromebook #35

Open eee-c opened 11 years ago

eee-c commented 11 years ago

First reported on twitter.

Over the course of time, the preview layer become unreliable.

This was reported against the JavaScript version of ICE. It may be better (or even fixed) in this version—the iframe update of the preview layer is completely different. Still worth investigating.

eee-c commented 11 years ago

More details from twitter.

Seems that we can work with a fairly self-contained project (e.g. just a sphere). Still need to determine if typos / code mistakes compound the problem or if simply pressing the “Update” button repeatedly is sufficient to reproduce.

eee-c commented 11 years ago

Not sure if this is the same, but we have found that locking (e.g. unterminated while) the editor under Chromebook is more extensive that locking a normal browser. With a normal browser, adding the ?e to the URL and hitting enter will cause a page reload. On Chromebooks, this has no effect -- the tab continues to display the locked preview, preventing updates.

The fix in this case is to close the tab and open a new one with the ?e appended to the URL (http://gamingjs.com/ice?e).

It is unclear if this is the same problem originally reported, but we will update the “When ICE is Broken” section in the book. Investigation continues…