• Paladin of the Pegasos
    Paladin of the Pegasos
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    Posts: 1535 from 2012/11/9
    From: Manchester, UK/GB
    @ Piru - Nice to know you are familiar, Chapter & Verse, with the legislation/directives to the financial sector, but if the webpages are already at a point where they are already basically unviewable on some important sites using OWB then isn't that a cause for concern right now?

    Are the financial directives not likely to have an impact on how OWB handles/views the pages of such institutions, if web-security is going to be a factor? :-?

    If webpages like eBay, Github, Parcel2Go and MyHermes have changed some pages already, in such a way that OWB can't use some pages of those sites, and these sites are the only ones I am aware of so far as I don't go trawling the internet to look for such issues, then the problem is only likely to get a lot worse for us in an exponential way quite soon I imagine. As these sites always like to have the latest innovations on their pages, and they have the resources to pay web-design teams to implement these more complex pages, which generally seem to involve a JavaScript overload, which OWB's JavaScript engine doesn't seem to be able to handle.

    Obviously the Windows, Linux and Macintosh software based web-browsers are capable of keeping themselves up-to-date with whatever changes are implemented so their browsers can be adapted to accept these newer capabilities, due to their greater financial and employee resources to code/update their browsers and keep up with these changes, as the speed that the web/security keeps changing so frequently.

    I realise we probably don't have the means to adapt OWB to some of these latest features, or does the Development Team consider it can?

    However, what I really wanted to know . . . is the matter being addressed, where possible, to get as far ahead as possible to make OWB realistically useful, or are these changes on the sites I've mentioned beyond the capabilities of the WebKit code that the Team have access to, in order to adapt it to our needs to make it a great deal less limited?

    @ KennyR - I always appreciate a bit of humour, but it doesn't address any of the issues. ;-)
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