This has been discussed in the past. The main reason for not pursuing this was the fact that even helloworld would be ~20+MB
@purplecabbage risingj.com On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Kerri Shotts <[email protected]> wrote: > Pretty sure Apple would frown on this and reject the apps out-of-hand, > seeing as they don't permit any third party browser to use anything but the > built-in rendering engine. (Opera Mini is a special case here - last I knew > it was essentially doing the rendering back-end and passing the image to > the user, which means no on-device rendering at all). > > Plus, don't forget the increase in app sizes such a thing would bring -- > it's not as critical now that Apple lets users on cellular download apps up > to 100mb, but still something to think about. > > All that said, iOS 7 has done some good things and some really lousy > things wrt to the web views. Sigh. :-( > > > ___________________________________ > Kerri Shotts > photoKandy Studios, LLC > > On the Web: http://www.photokandy.com/ > > Social Media: > Twitter: @photokandy, http://twitter.com/photokandy > Tumblr: http://photokandy.tumblr.com/ > Github: https://github.com/kerrishotts > https://github.com/organizations/photokandyStudios > CoderWall: https://coderwall.com/kerrishotts > > Apps on the Apple Store: > > https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/photokandy-studios-llc/id498577828 > > Books: > > http://www.packtpub.com/phonegap-2-mobile-application-hotshot/book > http://www.packtpub.com/phonegap-social-app-development/book > > > > > On Oct 8, 2013, at 10:19, Jacob Robbins <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Going through the iOS7 upgrade with my Cordova app (2.9) I found some > > unpleasant surprises with fixed footers. The changes to mobile Safari are > > great for browsing websites but not good for HTML5 apps. > > > > This made me wonder, has there been discussion of integrating a full > mobile > > browser codebase into Cordova and using that instead of the native > webview? > > Mozilla sort of went this way with XUL where you could take their HTML > > engine and use it in a non-browser context. > > > > Seems to me a lot of usability problems with non-native apps result from > > running them inside the same HTML engine used by the platforms' default > > mobile browser. The native browsers are moving towards features that help > > make regular websites accessible. Being a great virtual machine for > > non-native apps is not a high priority for them. > > > > Was wondering if this has been discussed and if there's issues that make > > including a full HTML engine in a Cordova app infeasible. > > > > -Jacob Robbins > > Burn Note >
