That sounds good, James! It would be good to have `buttonLabels` be an array of Strings to avoid recreating this bug <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1933> in your prompt function.
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:04 PM, James Jong <wjamesj...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was looking at the Notification API and noticed that we have existing > support for alert and confirm dialogs but do not have one for prompt. I > think it would good to add this missing function to the Notification API. > It seems a natural fit alongside the alert and confirm methods. > > To mirror the current dialogs in the Notification API, the js method would > look something like: > navigator.notification.prompt(message, promptCallback, [title], > [buttonLabels]) > message: Dialog message to display (String) > promptCallback: Callback to invoke with index of button pressed (1 or 2). > (Function) > title: Dialog title (String) (Optional, Default: "Prompt") > buttonLabels: Comma separated string with button labels (String) > (Optional, Default: "OK,Cancel") > > The goal would be to have this across all our supported platforms. I > would like to create a JIRA item and have sub-tasks for each platform. I > plan on contributing the code for iOS and Android. I also will update > mobile-spec tests and write the API documentation. > > My questions are: > (1) Is this a reasonable addition to the Notification API? > (2a) If so, can we initially have support for a few platforms and add more > as we go along? > (2b) Can we go ahead and publicly document the API or wait until we have > support across the platforms? > > If we agree this is good to have, here's the summary of tasks I plan to > proceed with: > create a JIRA issue with sub-tasks for each platform > contribute the code for iOS and Android > add prompt tests to mobile-spec > create the prompt API documentation > > Thoughts or comments? > > -James Jong
