Images do not load

[quozl]

When the activity is built, bundled, installed, and then run, the embedded images are not shown.

• make html copies the referenced images from images to html/_images
• python setup.py dist_xo ignores the directory _images
• the bundles does contain images but the HTML does not reference them

Discovered by accident as part of #99, and more information is in the comments of that pull request.

[godiard]

I am not sure if this is the case, but looks like could be related to https://github.com/godiard/help-activity/blob/master/helpactivity.py#L129

[quozl]

Thanks. Yes, it is related. When I add logging to the resource-load-started callback, I see the following;

• when there is an html/_images directory (executed from a development directory), a call is made for each image loaded,,
• when there is no html/_images directory (executed from unpacked bundle directory), no calls are made.

When I revert a1ee2c6, the problem goes away. So the cause appears to be a consequence of @chimosky's Port to WebKit2. I must have made a mistake in testing and should not have merged the pull request.

It is as if the signal is skipped for failed local filesystem access.

I've reviewed the C and Python bindings documentation for WebKitGTK, and can't find any promise that local filesystem requests can be redirected like this. Next steps are interactive debugging and reading the WebKitGTK source.