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Next release some time November From: Gord Tanner To: dev@cordova.apache.org Reply To: dev@cordova.apache.org *Re: InAppBrowser api questions* 2012-11-09 6:02:52 PM Nice!!! When is the next release? I will create a jira to track looking into getting the child browser plugin working for Cordova once the bb10 API is available On 2012-11-09, at 3:24 PM, Nukul Bhasin wrote: > BB10 WebWorks implements something similar. It will be a part of the next > release > > here is the definition for what we implemented for BB10 > > https://github.com/blackberry/BB10-WebWorks-Framework/issues/230 > > > On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Shazron wrote: > >> WIki page: http://wiki.apache.org/cordova/InAppBrowser >> Some questions brought up by Jesse in JIRA (replicated below): >> http://goo.gl/cZe84 >> >> ---------------------------------------------------- >> Jesse MacFadyen: >> >> I have some open questions about the wiki defined 'spec' >> >> 1. window.open('http://random-url.com', '_self'); // loads in InAppBrowser >> so even though the random-url is not whitelisted, it is permitted to >> load within the application, inside the InAppBrowser. This is currently not >> trivial on iOS. >> >> 2. How can I open a whitelisted url in the native browser? ie. mobile >> safari >> there is no clear path to targeting ALL 3 possibilities or a)the app >> page, b) the InAppBrowser, c) the system browser ( for a whitelisted URL ) >> it makes sense that you cannot open a file:// url in the system browser >> + you cannot open a non-whitelisted url in the app. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------- >> >> My comments: >> >> 1. This as Jesse points out, is not trivial on iOS. The "easy way" would be >> to not allow this, but kick it out to the system browser (Mobile Safari), >> and have that as a general rule, any non-whitelisted URLs for the >> InAppBrowser are kicked out to the system browser. I don't know how hard it >> is for Android. >> >> If we were to do this, we would have to temporarily allow the url to bypass >> the whitelist which could be kludgy (since we can't know what other URLs >> that URL will load) -- essentially this issue >> http://issues.cordova.io/1695would totally solve this correctly, but >> we don't have a solution yet for >> that issue. >> >> 2. This case has not been addressed. I would think _blank would be the case >> but this is specified as the InAppBrowser here. How about this case, we >> could use _parent for InAppBrowser, but _blank for system browser? However, >> this would not be consistent with how the other calls are specified (unless >> we change the others to be consistent). >> >> Another possible solution is to kick out to the system browser if an >> unknown value is used (some random value), that will use the system >> browser, which is consistent with how window.open works. > > > > -- > *Nukul Bhasin* > *Computer Engineer, B.Eng* > *10 Queens Quay W, suite#1710* > *Toronto, ON, Canada* > *Ph: 416 508 3157*