Coming back to Joe's point of if the browser has the API, then the plugin should not implement it. Is there a way for a plugin to not clobber the namespace if the browser already implements it? This would be a nice way to support Android 5+ with the browser implementation and the older version with a custom Cordova implementation - considering they have the *same* behavior.
+1 to having a promise polyfill implementation in a shared plugin. Also, there is the orientation spec - which would be great to implement in Cordova: http://www.w3.org/TR/screen-orientation/ Thanks, Nikhil -----Original Message----- From: brian.ler...@gmail.com [mailto:brian.ler...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Brian LeRoux Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 1:20 PM To: dev@cordova.apache.org Cc: Tyler Freeman Subject: Re: Introduction Yes, lets not bikeshed block and tackle for things that are very solved (async) even if the aesthetics are not to everyone's taste or on trend. Contacts API is heavily broken, used and needed. Its a great suggestion for something that would be high impact and actually important to userland. On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Steven Gill <stevengil...@gmail.com> wrote: > If someone wants to take a stab at coming up with a proposal, go for it. > Sounds like we need to have more discussion on what that should look like. > > I like Jesse's suggestions of looking for browser implementations first. > > You could look into adding a promise polyfill as a cordova plugins and > have it as a dependency. I found [1] after a quick google search. > > [1] https://github.com/vstirbu/PromisesPlugin/ > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 12:01 PM, julio cesar sanchez < > jcesarmob...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > It's only supported by android 5 webview (12% share right now), so I > think > > the plugin makes sense for now even if it's going to be deprecated > > in the future and replaced by the browser battery status when more > > people have android 5 or greater > > > > But the discussion about this should be better on the > > cordova-discuss https://github.com/cordova/cordova-discuss/issues > > > > > > > > 2015-07-07 20:42 GMT+02:00 Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com>: > > > > > I hate to dash your hopes, but I think that we should probably not > have a > > > Battery Status plugin and defer to browser behaviour on Android, > > > since Battery Status is supported on the browser with the latest > > > Android WebViews, and with Crosswalk. Any plugin should just be > > > glue code for facilitating this behaviour, similar to how we > > > deprecated the > Geolocation > > > plugin on Android in favour to Browser Geolocation. > > > > > > That's my two cents on the issue right now. > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 11:17 AM Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote: > > > > > > > exactly so and by all means please feel free to use that, > > > > bluebird, > > rsvp, > > > > q, jakes es6 polyfill or any of the 5000+ libs for Promises [1] > > > > > > > > though I suggest one limits the scope to the other 200+ > > > > libraries > > > claiming > > > > A+ support! [2] > > > > > > > > ;P > > > > > > > > [1] https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=Promise > > > > [2] https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=Promise+A%2B > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Tyler Freeman <ty...@tappur.co> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'd just like to mention that jQuery has promises built-in as > > > > > the $.Deferred object. It's not quite the same as the official > > > > > Promises > > > spec, > > > > > but can be used similarly in most cases. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On July 7, 2015 9:42:10 AM PDT, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote: > > > > >> > > > > >> We experimented with Promise polyfills and had nothing but > trouble. > > > I'd > > > > >> like to preface by saying: lets not get into a theory war. > > > > >> Some > > people > > > > like > > > > >> promises (fine) and some do not (also fine). My stance is > > > > >> that we > > > should > > > > >> leave that choice up to our end users. > > > > >> > > > > >> Lets throw some facts out to colour things. > > > > >> > > > > >> 1. Promises are a spec that will land in browsers natively > > > > >> [1] 2. Promises as a concept have MANY polyfill > > > > >> implementations 3. The polyfill landscape is largely > > > > >> divergent and implement > > different > > > > >> flavors of the concept > > > > >> > > > > >> Since we implement a User Agent we *could* polyfill to spec. > > > > >> As a > > > > plugin. > > > > >> (Jake's is probably best [2]) I'd be in favor of this and > > > > >> making > > that > > > > THE > > > > >> plugin dep for companion plugins that require Promises. The > problem > > > with > > > > >> this is #3. If we have a window.Promise it could be clobbered > > > > >> by a > > > user > > > > >> that is not super aware of how things are composed under the hood. > > If > > > it > > > > >> *could* happen guess what: it will. Some frameworks even > > > > >> force the > > > idea > > > > of > > > > >> Promises that may not be totally on spec. Older jQuery and > > > > >> Ember > > come > > > to > > > > >> mind. > > > > >> > > > > >> The other way to solve this problem is patience. This is the > > > > >> path > I > > am > > > > most > > > > >> in favor of. Lets wait out the native implementation to land > > > > >> in > the > > > > various > > > > >> webviews and at such time we can start using those. > > > > >> > > > > >> Plugins really should wrap device and operating system API's > > > > >> (in > my > > > > >> opinion) and we should leave library code for the user land > > > > >> to > > figure > > > > out. > > > > >> The Promise API *is a library* until such time as it has been > > > > implemented > > > > >> into the language runtimes natively (and not just > > > > >> speculatively standardized). Ok I guess faltered into the theory war > > > > >> part there. > > ;) > > > > >> > > > > >> [1] https://promisesaplus.com/ [2] > > > > >> https://github.com/jakearchibald/es6-promise > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Murat Sutunc < > mura...@microsoft.com > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > >> > > > > >> Hey Paul, > > > > >>> Welcome to Cordova! I've looked at your changes on github > > > > >>> and > have > > > > some > > > > >>> early feedback. > > > > >>> > > > > >>> 1) As per spec you return a Promise on battery.js but to my > > > knowledge > > > > we > > > > >>> don't have a fallback for ES6 Promises on platforms that > > > > >>> don't > > > > support it > > > > >>> yet. I would like to know what other committers think about > > > > >>> this > > > > problem. > > > > >>> 2) I think the old API and the new API can co-exist for a > > > > >>> while > > > > before we > > > > >>> deprecate and remove the old one. I see that the new spec > > > > >>> uses a > > > > different > > > > >>> method name so we should be fine here. > > > > >>> > > > > >>> Thanks, > > > > >>> Murat > > > > >>> > > > > >>> -----Original Message----- > > > > >>> From: Paul Contat [mailto:contat.p...@gmail.com] > > > > >>> Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 12:38 AM > > > > >>> To: dev@cordova.apache.org > > > > >>> Subject: Introduction > > > > >>> > > > > >>> Hello everyone, > > > > >>> > > > > >>> My name is Paul Contat, and I'm an engineering student and > > currently > > > > doing > > > > >>> an internship at W3C focusing on aligning cordova API with > > > > >>> W3C > > ones > > > > where > > > > >>> applicable, as part of the HTML5Apps EU project ( > > > > >>> > > > > > > > > > > http://html5apps-project.eu/2014/08/27/aligning-cordova-and-w3c-device > -apis/ > > > > >>> ) > > > > >>> > > > > >>> For my internship, I’m planning to contribute to the > > > > >>> cordova > > > project, > > > > >>> starting by the BatteryStatus API ( > > > > >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6065) if it’s > possible. > > > > >>> > > > > >>> I've just signed the ICLA, created an account on Apache > > > > >>> JIRA so > > I’m > > > > ready > > > > >>> to start and submitted my first pull request: > > > > >>> > > > > >>> https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-battery-status/pull > > > > >>> /24 > > > > >>> > > > > >>> I’m looking forward to feedback on whether I’m on the right > > > > >>> path > > for > > > > >>> updating the Battery plugin API; I’m in particular > > > > >>> interested to > > > > understand > > > > >>> if and how the current API should be deprecated once we get > > > > >>> to a > > > stage > > > > >>> where the new API is deemed in a good enough shape. > > > > >>> > > > > >>> Best regards, > > > > >>> Paul > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > > -- > > > > > Tyler Freeman > > > > > CTO, Tappur > > > > > http://tappur.co > > > > > > > > > > Sent from mobile > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org
