Embedding Cappuccino in other web content

[Luke]

I'd like to place my Cappuccino client into a section (div, I guess) of some existing web content, rather than having it take over the entire page.

That way I can have the regular site navigation bar, footer etc in place, but hopefully have the Cappuccino app table up residual space in the body of the page. 

I can't find any documentation or posts about doing this, but if this is possible, then there must be a way to anchor it in the page content.  Just loading the ObjectiveJ.js seems to always have Cappuccino take over the whole page.

 

[Luke]

... maybe I could just throw an iframe on the hosting page and load the Cappuccino app into that - but perhaps there's a better way.

[Keary Suska]

I think the short answer is no. If there are any calls to absolute parent objects, these will fail due to same-origin policy. If everything is on the same site, you can expect that Capp will pollute your global namespace and potentially break other scripts.

Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
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[Kjell Nilsson]

I think you can look at Michel Bach site. https://michaelbach.de/ot/-misc/cappuccino/index.html
He has embedded Cappuccino in his pages.

I dunno if he uses other JavaScript libs together with Cappuccino though.

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[Prof. Michael Bach]

Dear Keary, Kjell & All:

> I think you can look at Michel Bach site. https://michaelbach.de/ot/-misc/cappuccino/index.html
> He has embedded Cappuccino in his pages.

Yes indeed. I had been following this thread but wasn’t entirely sure I understood the question, but now. So here goes:
I have about 100 small Cappuccino programs running there, with ≈2000 visitors daily, and organised as follows:
• only »jake release« is used, not deploy, so no cappuccino libraries are embedded

• the usual Cappuccino »index.html« is referenced in an iFrame

• said index.html has ONE important line, which I show here in context
==============
<!-- Custom javascript goes here -->
<!-- End custom javascript -->
<script type="text/javascript">
OBJJ_INCLUDE_PATHS = ["../../-misc/cappuccino/Frameworks"];
OBJJ_MAIN_FILE = "main.j";
==============
so the »OBJJ_INCLUDE_PATHS« is used to point to the folder where all Cappuccino stuff lives.

• The site is arranged like so
-<-misc>/cappuccino/Frameworks/ <AppKit, Foundation, … own classes>
|
-<item1>/capp/index.html <here also release stuff, like <Browser.environment, Res…, …>
|
-<item2>/capp/index.html <here also release stuff, like <Browser.environment, Res…, …>
|
…
|
-<item99>/capp/index.html <here also release stuff, like <Browser.environment, Res…, …>

• All in all: “released” stuff runs at same speed as “deployed”, and I have only one instance of all of Cappuccino’s frameworks, thus saving massively on download

• it speeds up enormously to enable GZIP, in Apache these two lines did the job for me
AddOutputFilter DEFLATE sj j cib js css
AddOutputFilter DEFLATE .obj

> I dunno if he uses other JavaScript libs together with Cappuccino though.

No. In a few cases I use P5 or threejs, but Cappuccino’s GUI is so much better. I have recently removed jQuery when switching to Jekyll, and through the help of Jekyll nearly all of JavaScript was replaced by Liquid, speeding up rendering.


Enjoy, best, Michael


PS: I'm really lookin forward to Aristo 3, and thank everyone being so hard at work on this.
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