I've done with my review with all the issues that need to resolved with the plugin before it can be baked in to the platform for a major version release. I'm going to discuss issues with respect to migration of developers from UIWebView (features that will be lost or are different)
1. Cookies don't persist. This is a WebKit bug, but someone has created a plugin for a workaround. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-12074 2. Can't delete cookies. This is/was a WebKit bug (2015), need to test for the iOS 11/12. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11297 3. Can't execute JavaScript code in the background. There are several issues related to this. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-12815 4. XmlHttpRequests don't work, because of Cross-Origin Resource Sharing issue (CORS). There is a workaround plugin created by Oracle (UPL licensed, which is Apache-2.0 compatible). See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10143 5. Migration of localStorage from UIWebView. There is a migration plugin available. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11974 Of course there are several bugs also that need to be resolved. List here: https://s.apache.org/QfsF Out of the 5 issues, 3 (external) plugins are available for the issues, 2 require minor code changes. For a solution to issue 5, I am proposing a proxy webview engine plugin that will: 1. Read a preference to use a particular webview engine 2. Proxy the selected webview engine's interface from its interface This proxy will possibly help with migration and testing, so users can "beta test" WKWebView now for existing apps (and switch back if there are problems). This is like a "feature flag" that I mentioned before, but at runtime, for users. This proxy webview engine plugin can also possibly help with InAppBrowser, I'm not sure (since that plugin has more hooks into a webview's interface). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org
