Given that plugins will be independently versioned once they break off I think it will be a whole new world for where we focus our efforts next year. I suspect most of what you propose will be without contention.
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey > > I'm currently looking through the plugins, and I'm thinking more and > more that Android has at least two plugins that I would like to see no > longer maintained once we break them off of the main repository. > > Geolocation: > ------------------- > Our Geolocation doesn't actually give us anything that the browser > doesn't do. I think that GPS could be done better, and that the spec > sucks. However our core plugins are supposed to follow the spec, and > since the browser on Android does this much better, there's no point > for this plugin to exist. > > WebSQL Storage: > ---------------------------- > Our WebSQL storage is pretty brittle and is just a shim to the raw > SQLite that Android creates. There's no real exception handling, and > this could easily crash. I would like to deprecate this and point > people to a third party plugin if they need their SQLite done. > > Camera > -------------- > Also, we need to figure out how we capture things. It'd be good if we > picked one way to do this over the other. Right now mobile-spec seems > to use the Camera API, which I don't think is correct. We need to > write a new test for this, because right now this isn't well tested. > I'd like to send the old Camera API on the ice flow in favour of > capture and the native URI handling. > > Thoughts on this? > > Joe
