Plus you have cross scripting accross domains can of worms as well.. Its one reason why even if I am embedding most of my app in web code via webview I am still using native side to do the app password and OAUTH permissions at start up to void such can of worms
On Feb 24, 12:07 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Al Sutton <a...@funkyandroid.com> wrote: > > Just to go a bit further on this, I'd hope you'd be implementing at > > least a subset ofhttp://desktop.google.com/plugins/ > > It's Google code, it'd bring a lot of widgets/gadgets onto Android in a > > short time frame, and would lessen the learning curve for many people. > > I suspect that just blindly supporting HTML-based gadgets in the home screen > would be less than desirable. This would mean having (multiple) instances > of the web browser running in the home screen process, displaying gadgets > that were designed purely for a desktop environment -- if you look at > existing gadgets there are very few that will take less than the full size > of the available screen, if they even fit on the screen at all. And you can > be sure that the vast majority aren't going to be very memory efficient, > running in a web browser in a process that also has a key part of the global > user interaction so wants to remain running as much as possible. Plus they > are designed to be interacted with using a mouse, and would now be running > in an environment where you use your finger and inside of a container where > finger gestures are already dedicated to being able to scroll and drag. > > So it's not really so straight-forward. :} > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public > forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
