[Q] How to make web pages display correctly in Chrome Beta ? - Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime

Hello,
For the stock Web Browser, I know there is a method to make web sites render really like the PC version, I mean like the screenshot below. We use the 'about:debug' url to change some advanced settings (UAString, viewport,...).
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
But I don't know how to do that in Chrome Beta. I waited for the last update which integrates an option to view a web page in 'Desktop mode' but, seems like it changes only the UAString, but not the viewport.
It's very annoying, and I'll continue using the stock browser until I find a solution for that... So if someone know how to fix that... Thanks !

Maybe you can find the answer buy taking a look at the support Page for chrome.. The support page usually provide information and you as a user can give feedback so that they now what to fix.
https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2393487&p=mktg_mobile_help#/answer/2462846
Crashes
I received the “Chrome Beta is not responding” message on my Asus Transformer Prime.
We’re working on fixing performance issues that occur on specific hardware configurations.
Font and language issues
Fonts are the wrong size after I rotate my device.
Text size should remain the same when you rotate from portrait to landscape orientation, but in some cases will appear too large. We’re working on fixing this issue.
Font size is inconsistent on some sites, such as Reddit and T-Mobile.
We're working on improving the display of non-mobile sites on phones, especially ones that use a large range of styles and fonts.
On tablet landscape mode, the text doesn't respect my font size setting
Text scaling may not be applied correctly on some sites. We’re working on fixing this issue.
Issues with other apps and settings
I have tabs open on other devices and I’m signed in to Chrome, but no tabs are listed on the New Tab page.
There may be a delay as information is syncing across your devices. If tabs don’t appear in the "Other Devices" section after 1-2 minutes or after you've refreshed the page, try reopening Chrome on your devices. To close Chrome for Android, swipe it from the Android app switcher.
Site display issues
Facebook pages won’t scroll properly on some devices.
We’re working on fixing this issue.
Scrolling is laggy and content loads slowly when scrolling quickly.
We’re working to improve scrolling performance on certain devices and the loading speed for pages with many images or extensive dynamic content.
On tablet landscape mode, some pages are zoomed in by default.
When viewing a site in landscape mode on certain screen sizes, some sites may load slightly zoomed in instead of fully zoomed out. We’re working on fixing this issue.
Text is blurry on the desktop site for Gmail.
We’re working on fixing this issue.
When I reopen Chrome, some tabs appear to reload only the outdated content.
Restored tabs initially load cached content. For pages that update content frequently, such as news sites, the content of a restored tab may not update unless you refresh the page. We’re working on fixing this issue.
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And they just released a update for chrome.
Chrome for Android Beta has been updated to 0.18.4409.2396 (Chrome 18.0.1025.133) on Google Play. As mentioned on the Chrome Blog, this update includes a number of new features, as well as the following changes:
Allow for download of files to the device
Complex Text Layout (CTL) and Right to Left (RTL) text support in rendered pages
Enable old-style YouTube embed content to be played via native YouTube app
Support for country-specific suggested search engines.
Known issues:
115732 : External links don't open in new tabs if multiple links are opened
113041 : No way to auto-hide the toolbar
114964 : Error pages are not optimized for mobile / Android devices
Other notable issues listed here
If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. More information on Chrome for Android is available on the Chrome site.
Srikanth Rajagopalan
Google Chrome

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[Think Tank] HTML 5 Support(Videos) in Browser / Calling all Devs (Cyanogen!!)

Ok So I know a thread already exists for this however I belive its being viewed by the wrong audience. Mod please do not delete or merge, Im hoping to get this thinktank going.
All of us with the Nexus 1 should know that HTML 5 is already supported by the most recent version of webkit(webbrowser) we have See below:
Copied from:http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.0-highlights.html#UserFeatures
Browser
Refreshed UI with actionable browser URL bar enables users to directly tap the address bar for instant searches and navigation.
Bookmarks with web page thumbnails.
Support for double-tap zoom.
Support for HTML5:
Database API support, for client-side databases using SQL.
Application cache support, for offline applications.
Geolocation API support, to provide location information about the device.
<video> tag support in fullscreen mode.
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Im wondering if Cyanogen or any of the developers could edit the webkit to get it to work as it is claimed to work with h264 codec. Using Youtube's HTML5 Beta you can see we are almost there. See pic below.
Our N1's support this codec natively. It seems its already there we just need for our browser to recognize the <video> tag. Devs can you please help, this would be a huge jump and leap that we would cross and would not have to twiddle our thumbs waiting for Flash and of course another advantage over the Max-I-Pad and Ifone......
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
The same occurs with Stock MT browser and Dolphin.
(Thanks Mikhael for the Screenshot)
Ok well remember that Android CoreMedia only supports a subset of the mp4 spec. However it looks like the mp4 videos on youtube are playable, at least the ones I scraped are.
I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve here. The android youtube app pulls the same mp4 files (depending on bandwidth) are you specifically wanting the video to play _within_ the html control or do you just want to be able to click on a html5 <video> element and have that video play fullscreen? The latter is possible if the site makes sure to an an onclick event to the video as mentioned here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711078/html5-video-element-on-android
I just tested this out myself making a HTML5 page using the <video> element and clicking on the element does indeed simply play the video. So really its allready done, we just need to convince youtube to update their site/mobile site.
I think he just wants to be able to open a video within the browser itself.
That is unlikely to happen, the overhead of rendering a video to a surface then compositing that onto a webview would be a massive waste of cpu. I'd be happy to have fullscreen video kick off from clicking on a <video> element and that pretty much works as long as the site owners use video.play(). Unfortunately youtube does some auto-detection that doesn't bear android in mind, but thats more youtube's fault, though a default onclick event might be nice. You could do that with oilcan and a userscript
SilentMobius said:
That is unlikely to happen, the overhead of rendering a video to a surface then compositing that onto a webview would be a massive waste of cpu. I'd be happy to have fullscreen video kick off from clicking on a <video> element and that pretty much works as long as the site owners use video.play(). Unfortunately youtube does some auto-detection that doesn't bear android in mind, but thats more youtube's fault, though a default onclick event might be nice. You could do that with oilcan and a userscript
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but isn't the real value of Flash (and HTML5) not just in playing video in the Youtube sense, but in fully rendering interactive animation on web pages? I think that's more what people are missing more than just embedded video when they bemoan the lack of Flash in mobile web browsers...
j.books said:
but isn't the real value of Flash (and HTML5) not just in playing video in the Youtube sense, but in fully rendering interactive animation on web pages? I think that's more what people are missing more than just embedded video when they bemoan the lack of Flash in mobile web browsers...
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The OP was talking about HTML5 video, if we're thinking about enabling the whole mathml/svg namespaces then that is a different thing entirely, and much harder again.
Personally I loathe flash, as a developer myself, I'd much prefer it to die. But I can see the utility of having it available to android users so that we have the option of consuming content. Regardless of the quality of the content designers decisions.

UC Browser 7.7 Official English Version Release

(12th May, Beijing) UCWeb announced that the latest version of its flagship product, the UC Browser 7.7 has been just released, with those new
features, UC Browser became the most competitive players in the mobile internet market, compare to operamini, boltbrowser & skyfire. The
highlights of the 7.7 version is more traffic saving to browse WWW site and WAP 2.0 optimization made the page rendering even better.To
download UC Browser 7.7, please go to www.ucweb.com by PC or wap.ucweb.com by handset.
The feature list is summarized below:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
More traffic saving for WWW Site
*Optimized the compression algorithm, compress the content in the server side.
*Duplicated and similar data will not be transmitted again.Save another 30% traffic compare to previous version of UC Browser when visit
*WWW site, especially for those site is full of words.
Better page rendering
*Support more WAP2.0 tag
*Upgrade the compatibility to WAP 2.0 page.
No more glary in night mode
*In the night mode, UC Browser doesn’t only process the text and background, but also process the image to lower the brightness, make the image
softer.
*Process to both static and dynamic images.
Dial+Number to get quick access to site in the start page
*Press “Dial+Number” can get quick access to the corresponding site in My Shortcuts in Symbian V1/V2/V3
Input directly in website
*UC optimized Java version in 7.7 version to bring the direct input feature in website.
Tips optimization
*Tips’ place, background color and font color optimized.
Thread moved to proper forum.
abhishekkjain said:
(12th May, Beijing) UCWeb announced that the latest version of its flagship product, the UC Browser 7.7 has been just released, ...
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No 7.7 for winmo until now on www.ucweb.com ...
Santa-Claus said:
No 7.7 for winmo until now on www.ucweb.com ...
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Download from here.
http://www.plunder.com/c/Official-Version-UCBrowser-V7-7-1-88-PPC2005-cab-download-23f3b85937.htm
For Other Versions
http://www.plunder.com/c/Official-V...-1-88-JAVA-Signed-jad-download-24b9bc18dd.htm
http://www.plunder.com/c/Official-V...-1-88-JAVA-Signed-jar-download-1db6903a1b.htm
http://www.plunder.com/c/Official-Version-UCBrowser-V7-7-1-88-S60V3-download-257309674f.htm
http://www.plunder.com/c/Official-Version-UCBrowser-V7-7-1-88-S60V2-download-d3730241ab.htm
http://www.plunder.com/c/Official-Version-UCBrowser-V7-7-1-88-S60V5-download-776219e153.htm
http://www.plunder.com/c/Official-Version-UCBrowser-V7-7-1-88-S60V1-download-b6621329d4.htm
http://www.plunder.com/c/Official-Version-UCBrowser-V7-7-1-88-JAVA-Unsigned-download-1794302578.htm
abhishekkjain said:
Download from here.
http://www.plunder.com/c/Official-Version-UCBrowser-V7-7-1-88-PPC2005-cab-download-23f3b85937.htm
Which of those versions is for win mon 6.5?
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I downloaded and installed the first one, it works with win mob 6.5 on HD2.
First note: It does not give any flash support At least i Have not found any possibility to trigger flash ...
And be careful with rotating the screen in options to landscape - it works, but go back to normal before quitting the browser. Otherwise your homescreen is stuck in landscape what doesn´t work well in 6.5 ...
What's this browser's problem? I scroll down a large website like xda only to see the browser return to the top of the page so I have to scroll down again. Sorry but it's a complete waste of time why should anybody use this software instead of the well working opera browser? It's simply unusable.
Ok I realised that I installed 7.6 instead of 7.7. The current version is better but still suffers occasionally from the behaviour described in my previous post. But at least it is usable now.

NEW-UC Browser 7.8 Official Android

{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Just released today check it out
Get UC Browser 7.8 Official Android here
http://mobileplanet-waryam.blogspot.com/2011/07/uc-browser-78-official-android-s60v3.html
LibertyMonger said:
Get UC Browser here
If you find the default IE mobile web browser to be a little clunky then give UC Browser a try.
UC Browser is designed to make mobile Web access quicker and more convenient. It's a pretty lightweight application that manages to cram in a number of interesting features without slowing down your browsing experience too much.
Viewing WAP and web sites in UC Browser is a painless experience thanks to its multiple tabs, which allow you to have several pages loaded at once in much the same way as Firefox does. You can flick between the pages simply by tapping tabs, or by using the window icon at the bottom to pull up a pop-up screen listing the tabs you have open.
UC Browser gives you a lot of control over page layout, too. You can choose to view pages in full screen, tweak the font size, zoom images, and tweak image quality.
UC Browser has a number of interesting tools that you don't normally see in a mobile Web browser, such as an integrated download manager, built-in Clipboard for simple copy and paste, and a start page with a number of preset links to a range of categorized web sites. Of course, there's full support for bookmarks too.
There's a simple, yet effective Search tool within UC Browser that facilitates quick searching through Google, Bing or Yahoo!, allowing you to choose which search engine the browser uses. The inclusion of the 'Home' screen makes it easier to get started, because it houses shortcuts to all of your most viewed web pages.
UC Browser is a proxy-based browser, which re-renders and compresses page data on a server before sending it to the client (in much the same as Opera Mini and Skyfire do). This makes it exceptionally quick at loading pages. Unfortunately, it seems that image rendering is sacrificed somewhat in this process, and often you'll find that images won't display properly, which can get annoying.
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How does it compare to Opera?
JiroPrinz8 said:
How does it compare to Opera?
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i haven't used either much but whats nice about this is you pick your make and model of your phone and it customizes the fit and etc. to suit your phone. It's pretty sweet. The pages fit perfect to read them easier without always having to zoom in and scroll around
A ok browser but no flash not a good browser for a droid
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mchlbenner said:
A ok browser but no flash not a good browser for a droid
Sent from my XT720 using XDA Premium App
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Just released today UC Browser 7.8 Official Android

NewsSpot for Google Reader -[R]- 2013-02-01 -[U]- 2012-02-01 -[V]- 3.0

NewsSpot for Google Reader was just released for Windows Phone 8.
This is the Windows Phone 8 update of my app NewsSpot, which is already quite some time available for WP7 (see this thread). Besides the features listed in the other post, NewsSpot for Windows Phone 8 adds the following:
Full lock screen integration with quick and detailed status as well as background image. All updating in the background.
Pin sharp live tiles including the new wide tile style
Fast app resume
New splash screen
All graphics now in high resolution
The usual bug fixes
You can download it here:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
I'm looking forward to your feedback!
There is an add-supported version which is restricted to sync max. 200 unread and 50 starred articles, whereas the full version supports up to 1000 unread or starred articles. Additionaly the lock screen background is only available in the full version.
Issue with a live tile.
First of all great app!!! It's FAST and I found the ui is very user friendly. My only gripe right now is the live tile not updating correctly. I setup one group and it is currently saying I have 1000+ unread articles. And putting the live tile into "medium size" actually cuts off the logo. Other than that the app is awesome and is definitely my daily driver for news! Thanks!
dazednfazed said:
First of all great app!!! It's FAST and I found the ui is very user friendly. My only gripe right now is the live tile not updating correctly. I setup one group and it is currently saying I have 1000+ unread articles. And putting the live tile into "medium size" actually cuts off the logo. Other than that the app is awesome and is definitely my daily driver for news! Thanks!
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Thanks! I'm glad you to hear like NewsSpot.
Yeah, the 1000+ is actually a limitation by the Google Reader API, since it reports the unread counts only up to this limit. There are ways to get around this limitation, but implementing it is awkward (you have to do one web request for every tile instead of getting all unread counts at once).
The cutoff is intended, as I think knowing the number is more important than seeing the logo Otherwise I would have to move the number or make the font smaller, which somehow breaks the default styling of the tiles.
Regards
is there any way for a google reader app to pre-download/fetch the full article so i can read it when i do not have a connection?
Thanks
ekolb123 said:
is there any way for a google reader app to pre-download/fetch the full article so i can read it when i do not have a connection?
Thanks
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I get this request indeed more often recently. Technically it should not be that difficult, since all the code is already in place for caching the article previews and their images. I will see what I can do
FourSpotProject said:
I get this request indeed more often recently. Technically it should not be that difficult, since all the code is already in place for caching the article previews and their images. I will see what I can do
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Any update?
Well, I'm currently involved in two other projects, so the next updates of NewsSpot might need some time to be released. However, I'm sure it will come this year.
Regards
As you will have already noticed, Google is shutting down its Reader service by the 1st of July. However, this does in no way mean NewsSpot will be retired, too. Please read our Statement to see what's next for NewsSpot.
It's been already a while that we released an update, so here are the news:
(WP8 only) Raised limit of number of synced articles to 2.000 for each starred and reading list
(WP8 only) Added share via QR-code
YouTube videos are started without using an external app
Improved sharing via phone services
Long hold an item in the article list to share it
Accelerated switching between articles
(WP8 only) Fixed bug: autosync on start works again
Happy reading!

[APP][W10] Cast to

Hi guys, I want to introduce my new app, "Cast to", a proposed modern Windows 10 replacement of the DLNA player "Lumia Play to".
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
App's pros:
descending sorting of the media items (pictures and videos)
same view and playlist for pics & videos
slideshow plays pics and videos
Continuum support
app able to show panoramas/non-standard pics usually rejected by most of TV's
modern and fast Windows 10 user interface
real support from developer (also, app still under intensive development)
app's cons:
lack of QA/testing
Microsoft casting API instead own DLNA server (as Nokia/Lumia Play to has)
bugs and unstable work on the "budget" low memory handsets
This app is paid ($1.99) but has an unlimited trial version, with only one limitation: you'll see big red overlay "TRIAL VERSION" on your TV and handset.
Windows 10 store link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/cast-to/9nblggh5292q
Please, don't rate app low; ask me first here, in forum, or via app's support email.
If you like this app, please rate it "5 stars" and left good review in your store.
Thank you.
great app... dont need free code but already spread news in local forums and blogs (as always for your GREAT apps)
@dxdy, thank you for the good words, my friend!
P.S. Free codes are always available for you - just let me know
"Cast to" got an update 1.2.0
New in this version:
- added "Favorites"
- added sorting
- many bugs are fixed (and new added )
- some changes in the "settings"
Please report new bugs and issues, and your feature requests here. Thank you.
Cast to is currently free in Store!
Cast to
https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9nblggh5292q
"Cast to" got an update 1.4.1 (already in store).
What's new:
- significantly improved Continuum mode (as it supposed to be): now you hold UI in your hands (on the phone screen) and big screen receives pics/videos only, very useful!
- added backward playback for the slideshow (before it worked for selected items only). This option is very useful if you wanna demonstrate some events to friends and relatives;
- added "Share to" protocol support, now you can start "Cast to" directly from "Photos" app;
- significantly improved thumbnails/items data loading from cache (I moved changes in "Favorites" search to the separate thread). People with many media items (like me, more than 6000) will feel it!
- fixed bug in the slideshow playback (slideshow stopped after video playback);
- fixed some other bugs, added new ones

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