I like this idea. Achieves all concerns. (Separation thereof, and onboarding ease.)
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Carlos Santana <csantan...@gmail.com>wrote: > +1 Keep it as a plugin not embed into platform repo > > default plugins ? > > what about binding a set of default plugins with our www template app (the > template app specified what plugins are required) > > meaning associate a set of plugins with a template www app, and not > associate with platform or cli > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org > >wrote: > > > Plugins allow us to share JS. Rolling statusbar into platforms means > > different JS for all platforms, and make it easier for the APIs to > diverge. > > > > Plugins allow us to share docs, and to have the docs live with the code. > > APIs like Android's "app" plugin don't have very good docs (or maybe they > > are just undiscoverable, or maybe I've just missed where they are). But > > having consistency with docs is a big win I think, so having statusbar > as a > > plugin means devs can go to its plugin page to find its docs. > > > > I think just having default plugins would achieve the "everyone will > > probably want it" concern. But having it show up in "cordova plugin ls" > > will help devs discover that it's there and that they should probably use > > it. > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Jonathan Bond-Caron < > > jbo...@gdesolutions.com> wrote: > > > > > On Mon Mar 10 04:07 PM, Jesse wrote: > > > > More on the concept of rolling into a platform ... > > > > My distinction is that there are some things that every platform > should > > > consider a > > > > baseline of browser functionality, and if the OS SDKs do not provide > it > > > out of the > > > > box, then we should. Some examples of this : > > > > > > > > 1. Local XHR, Windows Phone does not support xhr when trying to > access > > a > > > file:// > > > > url, I could have made this a plugin that would only be used on WP, > but > > > I think > > > > this functionality should be intrinsic, so now it is. > > > > > > +1 > > > > > > > 2. console.log: if you create a brand new iOS cordova project, the > > > hello-world app > > > > gives you some boilerplate code to get started. One thing that new > > > users may > > > > notice is the use of console.log in index.js, however, they will > never > > > see the > > > > output. Hooking conosle.log output to go to the command-line output > of > > > a run > > > > command, or the output window of visual studio, or xcode is the > minimum > > > > functionality, and I personally think it should be built in. This is > > > probably best > > > > discussed in a new thread, as I know Michal has a different opinion, > > > because of > > > > some weinre edge case, but this is meant to serve more as an example. > > > > > > > > > > Yep agree, distinction here is there's ~ "web dev" flow and "native > dev" > > > flow (using an IDE) > > > > > > Both of those should be core somehow > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Carlos Santana > <csantan...@gmail.com> >
