[MlMt] Visualize Bundle - not working?

[Bill Cole]

On 4 Jul 2018, at 0:49 (-0400), Sherif Soliman wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
> On 3 Jul 2018, at 8:21, Ben Hyde wrote:
>
>> Maybe I just need a poke withe the clue stick, but I think this 
>> bundle isn’t
>> working today.
>>
>> I installed it a half hour ago, for the first time.
>>
>> And when I select a group of messages and hit cntl-t it
>> opens a page in Safari; but I don’t see a chart.
>>
>
> I'm the author of the plugin. You're not missing anything. 
> Unfortunately, the plugin stopped working somewhat recently due to a 
> change in the security models in browsers (all major ones, as far as I 
> know) where loading an external file in the way MailMate enabled the 
> plugin to do was considered insecure and no longer allowed. The 
> problem is explained by Benny [in this GitHub 
> issue](https://github.com/sheriferson/Visualize.mmBundle/issues/6#issuecomment-334471941).
>
> It seems that for this to work, MailMate (or the plugin) would need to 
> spin up a simple http server to be able to read the file generated by 
> MailMate.

Have you looked at switching to the current version of the D3 framework? 
It seems to have switched how it retrieves external data (no more 
XMLHttpRequest) which MAY solve the issue.


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