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WebPlugin with full HTML5 support like Chrome

I can`t use Royal TSX to manage vCenter and ESX today via html5 interface. Safari webplugin is not supported by VMware because lack of full html5 compatibility. For example, tasks are not displayed, blue screen instead of login prompt in esxi.



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I understand, but lack of full html 5 support is a big problem :( A lot of admins are using Vmware vSphere, and it is not working well on Royal TSX :(

Hi again,


just looked into Mailplane's app bundle. The full app is around 200MB. The brave framework totals 156MB. So if this framework needs to be linked directly to the app (instead of a dynamically loaded plugin) that's already a no-go for Royal TSX. Currently, Royal TSX comes in at below 40MB (without plugins) and I'm not going to add almost 4 times as much just to support a new browser engine.


If the brave framework can be loaded dynamically from a plugin, it would still be possible but I have to do more fiddling before I can comment on that.


cheers,

felix

Hi Stephan,


interesting. I'll look into it. However, I strongly suspect that the same limitations as other Chromium-based SDKs applies to brave. Probably also needs deep hooks into the main application which effectively is a no-go for our plugin architecture. Also, since it's based on Chromium the additional binary size will likely be significant. And last but not least, the example app you gave (Mailplane) is essentially a browser with an interface dedicated to displaying Google webapps so it's not really comparable to Royal TSX.


cheers,

felix

Mailplane uses https://github.com/brave/brave-browser , it's based on Chromium, and developed pretty actively.

Hi Wojciech,


I think you misunderstood that statement.

This actually refers to being able to use web connections created in Royal TSX from our Firefox and Chrome browser extensions. Previously, only credential objects were shown and usable from the browser extensions. Now you also access web connections.


So to clear up the confusion: There are no new web plugins included in Royal TSX V4.


cheers,

felix

On the webpage about Royal TSX 4.0 Beta you have written "Web connections can now be used in Chrome and Firefox browser extensions". I installed this version but I cant find Chrome extension. How can I install them?


Regards


https://www.royalapplications.com/ts/mac/features-beta

Hi,


we don't currently have a Chrome plugin for Royal TSX and there are no plans to change that in the near future.

Unfortunately there's no Chrome framework on macOS that we could use to integrate Chrome into Royal TSX without major effort and a huge increase in download size and performance impact for the whole app.


While it's really unfortunate that the VMware web client currently does not work properly with Safari, that's something VMware has to fix on their end.


best regards,

felix

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