I see that the GWT Development Mode plugin is available for Internet Explorer 8, but the browser crashes when I start it. The stack trace says there's an error in oophm.dll. I'm running it on a VirtualBox instance with Windows 7. Are there any special steps for setting up dev mode in IE8?
Dev mode doesn’t seem to play well with Windows 7. Try downloading a windows XP vm from:
http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools
You’ll also need to manually install the dev mode for IE 8 plug in from the following location because the built-in link for IE 8 is broken:
http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/tags/2.5.0/plugins/ie/prebuilt/
Consider trying superdevmode?
http://www.gwtproject.org/articles/superdevmode.html
Super Dev mode in GWT (stackoverflow)
Disclaimer: I don't know if it works on IE 8 -- but I think it was designed to work on any modern broser. One main reason for creating it was to get rid of the need of maintaining various browser plugins...
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This may already have a question somewhere, but I am at a loss as to how to debug IE11 on my Mac.
I currently run a full Win10 instance in a Virtual Box, but it is so bloated that it is nearly impossible to move nimbly between coding and debugging. IE dev-tools are also inaccessible using this method because it just cripples the VM, so I am flying blind with coding.
I have looked up tutorials as to how to run IE on a Mac direct using Wine/Remote Desktop, but these instructions are out of date or the supporting software does not work as intended. Also, Microsoft (being the evil empire that they are) discontinued support for debugging with Azure so that is another option off the table.
If there is anything that actually works without having to shell out $$$ please let me know as it is so painful currently to debug the worst browser that will never die.
From your description, I can see that you had already try to use the Windows 10 VM but it get hangs.
You can try to go to Windows Features on or off inside Control Panel-> Programs-> Programs and Features and try to turn off the features that you are not using may help to reduce the load.
It is possible that you are running your VM in a very less memory that downs the performance of the OS.
If possible for you than try to install a VM with some more memory.
Otherwise you can try to install Windows 7 in your VM and upgrade to IE 11 in that.
It can help you to solve your issue with the OS and you can debug the code on IE 11.
Below are some helpful references that may give you some additional information.
How to test your website with Internet Explorer on a Mac
How to Debug in IE on a Mac
When using my virtual machine, I'm trying to gain access to the Internet, but unable to get IE to start, when clicking the icon it doesn't react. I've done some research and a couple of hours troubleshooting, but no luck. It does appear to be a problem for some, but they don't have the exact same problem I do.
Here's what I've come across while troubleshooting:
1) OS is windows 8.1 32-bit, but my host machine is 64-bit, because of this there might be compatibility issues. Not much more on this though, no explanation on whether that is the problem at all.
2) My network settings could be wrong, but I'm attached to a bridged adapter, my IP's match for both VM and Host, and I can access the web when I use a web browser app (but the app that can't download anything, so I can't download google chrome or the necessary files I need to study).
3) Others say that the problem is Windows 8.1 itself. That VMs just don't work as they should like Windows 7.
I clicked to uninstall Windows explorer, but it seems it doesn't exist, and it doesn't have an icon on the home screen.
Could it be that the .iso I downloaded did not have IE included?
The original need for the VM was to test Docker containerisation for a report. Should I scrap the whole idea and try for Windows 7 64-bit instead? That's all I can do if I can't find a solution.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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The new version of chrome (42) doesn't support gwt plugin on windows 8.1 even I change the compatibility mode to Windows 7 I still get prompted to download the plugin again. I've tried removing it and re-installing but I still get this message.
Any ideas?
From GWT Website ,http://www.gwtproject.org/release-notes.html#Release_Notes_2_6_1
GWT Development Mode will no longer be available for Chrome sometime in 2014, so we improved alternate ways of debugging. There are improvements to Super Dev Mode, asserts, console logging, and error messages.
This is because of newer chrome version.Use Super Dev Mode
Other Solution is you can enable NPAPI which was disable in chrome 42 version follow the below steps
1.Open New Tab and Enter chrome://flags/#enable-npapi
2.Enable this Enable NPAPI Mac, Windows
3.Then bottom of the page click "Relunch" button.
Which is i already explained here Development Mode requires the GWT Developer Plugin
I have added code (blackberry geolocation) to a web page for the Blackberry browser.
Without a windows machine how would someone debug code for the Blackberry browser?
Not sure what machine you are working on, but running a virtual machine may be an option.
I have used VM Fushion6 with my Mac and it worked great. Plus it has a trial period, so it probably wont cost you anything.
http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/
I developed a web app with jsf and Primefaces in my PC. If I run it on localhost, it's displayed ok
Now I want to deploy it on a server, so I have installed same jdk version and copied my tomcat directory on a virtual machine.
Application runs right, but it's not displayed right in the same IE navigator! Buttons are hide, heades with wrong size....
The only difference is that my PC has Windows 7 32 bit and the VM it 's an Windows Server 2008 64bits
Any suggestion would be very appreciated
Thanks a lot!
Make sure you have right css in place, I had similar kind of issues where components where displayed properly on chrome but not on IE and for me issue was related to rime.css, make sure you have proper css in page, that probably is the reason for your challenge.