snowplow / snowplow/snowplow-javascript-tracker
enableActivityTracking does not ping inside an iOS UIWebView context
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category:browser
status:needs_triage
type:defect
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 590
- Forks
- 232
- Avg merge
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Description
Page Pings are not fired on an iOS UIWebView, while they are fired on Safari.
While loading statically the same HTML, with the same SP tracking code - execution is different when being loaded on Safari, and on an iOS UIWebView.
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Research direction
The issue names enableActivityTracking as the relevant entry point; begin by reproducing Page Pings with the same static HTML and tracking code in an iOS UIWebView and Safari. Done means Page Pings fire in the UIWebView as they do in Safari.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- ios, javascript
- Domain
- analytics, mobile-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100