[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (TOOLSDOC-333) NeedInfo: How does LiveReload work?

[Max Rydahl Andersen (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TOOLSDOC-333?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12775824#comment-12775824 ] 

Max Rydahl Andersen commented on TOOLSDOC-333:
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Yes - safari should work with livereload.js

'internal web browser' is in some OS's (like Linux) limited to older version of firefox xulrunner implementation which does not implement recent enough javascript support for livereload.js to work. Thus for 
livereload an external browser is needed in majority of the cases. 


                
> NeedInfo: How does LiveReload work?
> -----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: TOOLSDOC-333
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TOOLSDOC-333
>             Project: Documentation for JBoss Tools and Developer Studio
>          Issue Type: Task
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>          Components: User Guide
>    Affects Versions: 4.1.0
>            Reporter: Michelle Murray
>            Assignee: Xavier Coulon
>
> I am trying to document LiveReload Tools (integration of LiveReload in JBDS) and I have some questions about how it works.
> Users need a LiveReload server within the IDE and the LiveReload browser extension installed in Chrome or Firefox. Why are both needed? How is the work process distributed between the two? Which is responsible for which tasks?
> I ask because I could imagine the browser extension just looking for changes in file time stamps and consequently reloading pages. It clearly isn't as simple as that but I don't see how the LiveReload server fits in.
> Just read an email from Max to Burr, which separated functions into server-side and client-side. So does LiveReload work something like this: "The LiveReload server handles the server-side of the LiveReload action, such as sending request to refresh web pages. The browser extension handles the client-side of the LiveReload action, such as refreshing pages."

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