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Upgrade to VS Code's webview API

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Hi, I’m on the VS Code team. I noticed that your extension uses the vscode.previewHtml command which is deprecated and which we are actively working to remove: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/62630

We’ve developed a webview API that provides a much better developer experience and offers a number of important security and compatibility benefits over previewHtml. We cannot fix previewHtml without breaking backwards compatibility, and have instead opted to remove it.

To ensure that your extension continues to work properly in VS Code, please try upgrading to use the new Webview API. You can find documentation on the API usage here. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns about this migration

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Created 5 years ago
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Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

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mjbvzcommented, Feb 1, 2019

Just a heads up: in VS Code 1.32 (the February update), using the previewHtml command will show an alert to the user, although the command should still work. We plan to remove the command entirely with VS Code 1.33 (March update)

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seanpoultercommented, Nov 28, 2018

Thanks for the suggestion to use Gitter. I’ve opened #407 to see who’s interested and if they can pay attention to a Gitter channel. It sounds like it could help but I’m worried it’ll take our time away from all these Issues and PRs. 😉

Any thoughts on what we need to fix for the webview API?

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