Simulate a tap at coordinate

I am using a Web asset to display some client content, but there is a pop-up that comes up that the client does want on their website, but doesn’t want on their touchscreen app displaying the website. I tried putting an empty button over the close box for the pop-up, but the simulate touch action doesn’t touch the website even though the button is blank.

I realize this isn’t a use case scenario that occurs very often, but it would be cool to be able to simulate a touch at a coordinate on a Web asset or HTML asset for things that are clickable on websites.

Hi Cullen,

It would be cool, but as far as I know, it would also be a huge security issue, if for example a website could inject a touch event on the “Accept all terms & conditions” button and do it without the actual consent of the user.

I’ll double check with our product team, but from my understanding, when using a Web Browser Asset or the HTML Frame, the content of these assets is like a black box to the rest of the XP, and we can’t do anything on that content from “the outside”.

The solution is usually on the client side: they don’t want to display their regular website, they want to display a public-facing version with less privacy concerns / cookies / things to be accepted through that pop-up. It’s up to them to create that second version of the website, which is usually done through an “Embed” component used in an iframe.

Let me know if this makes sense.

Seb

Seb

Hey Seb,

I hadn’t considered that, but the potential for harm is there so that makes sense. I’ll let the client know that we should schedule a call with their web dev to make a copy of that webpage without the pop-up and provide me with the URL.

Thank you!