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Rhizome Awarded $600k by the Mellon Foundation to Build Webrecorder

by Spone on 1/4/16, 9:53 PM with 9 comments

• by civilian on 1/5/16, 1:05 AM

  I'm curious how they'll mock apps that have web requests. Like, on a website I work on we give testers a button to "create to users"--- it fills in the account signup form with the visa 4011 number and gives them an email/username/password based off of two randoms words from wordnik. (My favorite combo was: townwide-giardia.)

  Would future users always get the same two words? Would they record the network request a couple of times?

  If a web game had an endpoint to verify a solution, but the webrecorder only ever recorded the successful interaction, would it give success to any solution on the webrecord?

  I suspect that a quick answer would be: "we won't mock apps with web requests", but that would painfully ignore how commonly 3rd-party apis are used.

  //edit also you can play with webrecorder here: https://webrecorder.io None of my records are showing as Replays, but maybe that's because I'm an anonymous user.

• by mynewtb on 1/4/16, 11:00 PM

  That's fantastic news, congratulations and make it rock!

• by thewronbiennale on 1/4/16, 10:59 PM

  The first thing they could do with the money is hire a css expert to figure out why the date is upside down on their website. Very peculiar bug.