Common-voice: Microsoft Edge and Common Voice

[rprys]

I've just been to do a presentation on Common Voice to a large organisation which employs many thousands of Welsh speakers. Due to their security policies they run Microsoft Edge as the only browser.

When we tried the voice.mozilla.org/cy/new on a newish Lenovo laptop all we got was a blank screen. No error message or anything.

For our work with this organisation we need to be able to use Microsoft Edge.
Please?

[Gregoor]

Thank you for that report! I remember it working in Edge before but I can indeed reproduce it not working in Edge atm. Unfortunately I can't even open the DevTools to debug it (they immediately crash). Can you open up the Developer tools (in the menu in the upper right corner) and the contents of the console here?

[rprys]

Yes I can open Developer tools and see the content of the Debugger. What would it be useful for me to do?

[Gregoor]

A screenshot or a copy-paste of the Console inside of the DevTools would be very helpful!

[rprys]

anylitics.txt
gtm.txt
index.txt
new.txt
Open+.txt
Zilla.txt

Let me know if there are any other files you need.

[Gregoor]

Thanks. A screenshot of the console tab's contents would be good. Here is where you'd need to click for that:

[rprys]

[Gregoor]

Thanks for that screenshot. After the newest Windows Update the DevTools also stopped crashing for me, and I can also see that error.

So one cause might be that Edge is quite behind on new-ish JS syntax (in this case from 2014). But even when I change Microsoft's TypeScript to target ES5 (which even IE11 would support), there's still a syntax error. TLDR: I haven't solved this yet.

[rprys]

That's OK - there may be millions of people who don't know what a browser is, out there waiting... ;-)

[Djfe]

Internet Explorer is affected as well

[rprys]

Any update on tjis issue?

[Gregoor]

~I just looked at it again in Edge and the error message hasn't changed in usefulness and I couldn't find any more info on it. Sorry!~

I dug a little deeper and found out that (at least one of our) dependencies started using newer JS syntax. So I changed our build infra (added babel, started transpiling node_modules) which means Edge finally works again! (At the cost of 2 extra kb for the bundle and a bit more wait time in between changes when developing)

[Djfe]

Jay!
so it works again, nice
(I also wrote this to notify everyone here, since comment edits don't do that)

[rprys]

Sorry, I'm not getting anything from https://voice.mozilla.org or https://voice.mozilla.org/cy, just a blank screen in Edge. ;-(

[Gregoor]

Only on staging atm: http://voice.allizom.org/

Planning to deploy some time today

(sorry I tend to close issues once things are fixed on staging)

[rprys]

Ok, yes it works on my computer and on a computer at the above organisation.

Thanks, that great!

[rprys]

It's been drawn to my attention that while the Listening page on the site works, the Recording page brings up the 'Sorry your platform isnt supported yet' error message.
Could you have a look at this please?
Thanks.

[Gregoor]

Unfortunately Edge doesn't support the MediaRecorder API which we use for recording. I've tried to hack around that API a couple of time #469 but to no avail. I hope we'll have a WebAssembly version without that API at some point, but I think Edge's switch to Chromium will happen earlier.

[rprys]

An update on this issue. The new Microsoft Edge, based on Chromium now supports Common Voice. Initially it did not support recording, so I put in a request to address that issue.
I've tested recording and verifying today on Microsoft Edge Dev Build 76.0.167.1and it works.
The final release is not likely to be available before the end of 2019 and then will be vetted for suitability by corporate users, so it's a long term fix for my original request.
Thanks for your help on this Gregoor.

[Gregoor]

Awesome, very happy to hear that. Thanks for filing that issue!