On 04/04/2015 02:23 PM, Fabián Mandelbaum wrote:
we're facing issues with "Paste From Word" running the XXE 6.2 applet on
a Mac. Any help is appreciated, and since I have a Mac I'm open to
provide any feedback/input/help testing that you may need in case you
don't have ready access to a Mac. Attached is the MS Word test file.
Here's the report of my tests:
All tests done with Java8u40 (both on the server and on the Mac), latest
OS X (10.10.2), and latest versions of the browsers on a Mid-August 2014
MacBook Pro Retina. XXE applet has no customizations, only the
XMLMind-supplied addons. ND applet is XXE applet plus some minor
customizations on the UI and commands and a single AddAutoID Java
customization. XXE version used is 6.2 (latest). The Java cache was
emptied before each test run.
CLI to generate the applet:
./bin/deployxxe applet xxe-applet -keystore ~/.keystore -storepass
STORE_PASS_HERE -keypass KEY_PASS_HERE -alias Calenco -index
Note: -index option was only used when generating the applet to be
served by Apache (so there's no Calenco serving the applet like in the
rest of the test cases)
The test:
1) Open a doc in XXE
2) Open a doc in Word (Office for Mac 2011), copy some text containing
tables, lists and paras (the content structure does not really matter,
it fails also copying a single para)
3) "Paste from Word" on XXE
4) Copy some text in XXE and paste it for example in a text editor
5) Copy some text on Word and try to "Paste from Word" on XXE
Legend:
F: Firefox
C: Chrome
S: Safari
+ pass
- fail
The results (applet served by Calenco on an Ubuntu LTS 64 bit machine):
|----------| F | C | S |
|ND applet | - | - | - |
|XXE applet| - | - | - |
The results (applet served by Apache 2.4.7 on an Ubuntu LTS 64 bit machine):
|----------| F | C | S |
|ND applet | - | - | - |
|XXE applet| - | - | - |
Observed behaviors:
- Standalone XXE works OK, with no issue.
- On Firefox and Chrome, up to step 3 works OK, then step 5 has Paste
from Word disabled.
- On Safari, the Paste from Word menu, and Paste in general DOES NOTHING
(clipboard stuff seems seriously broken with Safari).
- On Firefox only, the right click menu does not work in both applets
(it "flashes" what's supposed to be the contextual menu and then such
"menu" disappears immediately).
Thank you for this excellent bug report. Unfortunately there is very
little hope that we can fix any of the bugs you describe. It seems that
Java applets, that is, Oracle's Java plug-in, simply does not work well
on the Mac. Note that Oracle Java 1.8 still does not work as well as
Apple Java 1.6 on the Mac. Therefore we are not surprised.
Now let's be more precise, for us, the real bugs are from most severe to
least severe one:
A) On Firefox only, the right click menu does not work in both applets.
B) On Safari, the Paste from Word menu, and Paste in general DOES
NOTHING (clipboard stuff seems seriously broken with Safari).
OTOH, what follows is hardly a bug:
C) On Firefox and Chrome, up to step 3 works OK, then step 5 has Paste
from Word disabled.
Yes, step 5 indeed works OK in the Standalone XXE. However when pasting
some text, if "Paste from Word" is disabled, why not simply use plain
Paste (Ctrl-V)?
Now about A) and B)
A) We'll *try* to find a workaround for this one.
B) Safari has extra security settings compared to Web browsers, please
retry your tests after allowing the applets to work in Safari's
so-called "Unsafe mode".
This is explained in this page:
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/known_problems.html#applet_problems
Search for "Mac OS X only".
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