Scaffold 2.0 and Firefox 3.6

hpstricker
Scaffold 2.0 seems not to work with Firefox 3.6:

- "Code" shows nothing for a newly created translator(but for pre-existing ones)
- "Test Regex" shows no results at all, neither for newly created nor for pre-existing translators
- "Run detectWeb" and "Run doWeb" show no results at all

How is saving of a newly created translator supposed to work: Should I be able to use it at least locally?
  • adamsmith
    "How is saving of a newly created translator supposed to work: Should I be able to use it at least locally? "
    you can just place it in Zotero's translator folder and restart.
  • ajlyon
    What version of Zotero are you using? I am having trouble with Zotero 2.1b and the trunk XPIs, but that has only affected detectWeb and doWeb.
  • hpstricker
    I'm using Zotero 2.1b2. Has it to do with the Zotero version?
  • hpstricker
    OK then, I downgraded to Zotero 2.0.9. Now it works better. But now I'd just like to know if this is expected behaviour:

    - no "Code" for newly created translators (after starting Scaffold)
    - no output for "Run detectWeb" (only for "Run doWeb") (at least for non-matching web pages)

    Please confirm, so I don't have to think about it anymore.
  • ajlyon
    New translators are empty. What do you expect to see in the Code window?

    There should be output for detectWeb, at least if the translator outputs debug messages during detectWeb. I'm not sure whether it's supposed to output anything if detectWeb returns false and there were no debug messages.
  • hpstricker
    I would expect to see stubs for the two main functions detectWeb and doWeb, maybe with some hints (as comments) how to customize them. And two Zotero.debugs telling that the functions don't do nothing, yet, such that the output never will be empty. This would give newbies a better feeling.
  • ajlyon
    Stubs and comments in new translators would be nice-- can you propose some boilerplate text? There's no reason we couldn't add something like that to Scaffold.
  • hpstricker
    I will propose some boilerplate texts, promised!

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