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

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.

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

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.