On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Ian Clelland <iclell...@chromium.org>
> wrote:
> > I've seen that show up in the API docs, and it looks like a much saner
> way
> > to execute JS in the WebView -- almost akin to iOS's
> > stringByEvaluatingJavascriptString, except that the result is *also*
> > returned to the browser, and not into native code.
>
> BTW: loadUrl("javascript://foo()") calls
> stringByEvaluatingJavascriptString, and it's not thread-safe, which is
> why it interferes with the UI thread and causes keyboards to disappear
> and all that stuff. Apparently you can in theory take down a whole
> device with it on iOS according to some couch guy I met at CascadiaJS
> a week or so ago.
>
Nice... I wish I could have made it out to that :|
>
> > The problem is obviously backwards-compatibility. If we can't use it on
> > newer devices, then is there any point in having it in the code?
>
> Yes! We can choose to use this the same way we choose other techniques
> now. Just because we have to make it work with all the versions of
> Cordova doesn't mean that we can't use the latest features. That's
> why we have things like reflection. This is how we had things like
> geolocation back when we supported Android 1.5 and 1.6.
>
> > Besides
> > being miles better aesthetically, does it give us any performance /
> reduce
> > odd quirks / anything that would make it worth the extra code complexity?
> >
>
> That's the question that I'm asking.
>
>
I guess we're asking the same question, then :)
I haven't seen anything that suggests that it will enable anything new,
that we can't already do.
If it doesn't, then I don't see any point in writing a separate code path
just for 4.4+ devices; it will just be more code.
On the other hand, if it *does* allow exciting new things, (and I'm hoping
it does,) then we should check it out :)
> Also, I think we should make the chrome debugger a preference to be
> turned on and off, but that's another thread.
>
We should have that thread, too.
Ian
>
> >>
> >> So, this is 4.4 only, but should we start adding this to our bag of JS
> >> tricks?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html#evaluateJavascript(java.lang.String
> ,
> >> android.webkit.ValueCallback<java.lang.String>)
> >
> >
>
