Re: [pgAdmin4] [PATCH] History Tab rewrite in React

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Ashesh Vashi
> <ashesh(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> >>
> >> And then I find a problem. Sigh.
> >>
> >> When running in the desktop runtime, under QtWekKit (the forked,
> >> updated version that is by far the best of the browser engines we've
> >> used), we get the attached error at startup. I don't see this under
> >> QtWebEngine, though as we've already found, that's not usable for
> >> other reasons.
> >>
> >> Is this fixable?
> >
> > As per 'http://qtwebkit.blogspot.in/2016/08/qtwebkit-im-back.html':
> > "
> > WebKit engine itself has not been updated since Qt 5.2 release. That's
> why
> > it didn't support recent changes in Web standards that happened after
> 2013,
> > including: new JavaScript language standard ES2015 (also known as ES6),
> as
> > well as improvements in DOM API and CSS.
> > ...
> > "
> >
> > Could this be a reason?
>
> For the old webkit, certainly, but if you read further down, the
> version we're using has been updated and does now claim to support
> most of ES2015.
>
​In fact the modern browsers don't support ES6 JS so the JS files
containing ES6 code are first transpiled using babel into JS that browsers
supports.

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