>Thoughts? That. Is. Awesome.
How far back can you target Android? On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Joe Bowser <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey > > Just an update, I have a working PoC of the GeckoView-based WebView ready > for people to look at here: > > https://github.com/infil00p/cordova-mozillaview-engine > > This is definitely a very different webview than what we have had > currently, and I've had to re-think a lot of how we do things with Cordova > because of it. The asynchronous bridge that uses promises is very > interesting on GeckoView, as well as how this is properly sandboxed. I > like it a lot better than how Chrome based web-views are currently working > with just bolting on an synchronous object. However, due to time, and > because I didn't want to repaint the bike shed again, I kept the basic > bridge architecture mostly intact. > > At any rate, from the initial tests, the bridge works and the plugins are > mostly intact. I override the exec with clobbers, and while I haven't run > Mobile-Spec against the plugin version, the fact that it fires tells me > that the clobbers probably will work. > > I am really worried about the Splashscreen and how we show and hide the > webviews, since this was found to be very brittle when I started to work on > this. We should consider having more proper refactoring of Cordova. > > At this point, now that we have two webviews, I think we should ramp up for > a 4.0 final release in January 2015. I don't want to do it now because I > can see people getting pissed off that we released 4.0 and then go on > vacation. That said, I'm glad that this exists, since it feels like we're > finally at the finish line with this feature. > > Thoughts? > > Joe > -- <http://www.wizcorp.jp/>Ally Ogilvie Lead Developer - MobDev. | Wizcorp Inc. <http://www.wizcorp.jp/> ------------------------------ TECH . GAMING . OPEN-SOURCE WIZARDS+ 81 (0)3-4550-1448 | Website <http://www.wizcorp.jp/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/Wizcorp> | Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/Wizcorp> | LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/company/wizcorp>
