Since you talked about plugin so do you plan to introduce/merge xwalk extension mechanism to Cordova plugin mechanism?
Thanks, Leo On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey > > So, once again, we're dealing with some major API changes once we > introduce pluggable webview. The first change that was done for > sanity was finally deprecating setProperty. This was slated to be > removed by 3.5 or in six months from the deprecation date, but we kept > it in too long. While I would like to assume that everyone has moved > over to setting their preferences in config.xml, which is the much > more sane way of doing things, we can't do that. We need to publicize > this in some blog posts, as well as in our documentation somehow. > There will obviously be some pissed off users, as we've seen in past > posts, but I think having the ability to use a WebView other than > Chrome 30 is worth these changes. > > The other change, which says more about our design is adding a getter > method for pluginManager. We need to access the pluginManager to get > plugins, and it's expected that everyone who implements a > CordovaWebView will have this method produce a pluginManager. In the > past, it was just publicly exposed, which was not the greatest idea > and was kinda sloppy. > > So, how do people want to handle these changes? We constantly get > shit for changing our API when we do development, but I do think these > improvements are extremely important, especially given how much flak > we get for relying on Android's WebView. > > Thoughts? > > Joe >