Maybe it's time to pull the ChildBrowser into the core Cordova API? It is currently available on Android/BB/iOS (not sure about WP7). This seems like the logical place to put any new API. Specifically on Android the ChildBrowser gives you two main methods:
showWebPage - communicates with your main app by sending location change events. openExternal - Fires up the native Android browser Simon Mac Donald http://hi.im/simonmacdonald On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Andrew Lunny <alu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why would a new API be overkill for something tons of apps and users > need? Here are some representative threads from PG Build about users > wanting this kind of API: > > http://community.phonegap.com/nitobi/topics/external_links_outside_webview > http://community.phonegap.com/nitobi/topics/iframes_open_in_safari_in_ios > http://community.phonegap.com/nitobi/topics/why_app_opens_in_external_widow > http://community.phonegap.com/nitobi/topics/opening_native_browser_programmatically_with_phonegap_build > http://community.phonegap.com/nitobi/topics/js_opening_links_methods_and_config_xml_access_tag > > I realize a few of those were started by the same user, but there are lots > of me-toos and responses. > > -1 on clobbering window.open. window.open takes 3 parameters, two of which > are invalid for this use case, and lacks a callback parameter (for example, > if the user is prompted with a choice of browsers on an Android device and > declines to open the link entirely). > > On 17 May 2012 14:27, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> iOS doesn't differentiate what the target attribute value is (thus >> ambiguous in Objective-C what the intent is). >> >> Good idea - we could clobber window.open, sure - and we add the native >> bits to support this. >> >> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Filip Maj <f...@adobe.com> wrote: >> > So target="_blank" is no good to use for this. >> > >> > A "new" API seems overkill for me. >> > >> > What about clobbering window.open ? >> > >> > On 5/17/12 2:19 PM, "Shazron" <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >>Punted this too much, need all of your input on this. >> >> >> >>Summary: >> >>We need an API function on all platforms to always open a url in the >> >>system web browser, right now each platform does its own thing, and on >> >>iOS it is very wonky, relying on a something that is ambiguous >> >>(navigation type value) through the target attribute of an anchor tag. >> >>Basically, I agree with Andrew's proposal here: >> >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-362?focusedCommentId=13247777&pag >> >> >>e=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment >> >>-13247777 >> >> >> >> >> >>JIRA issue: >> >>https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-362 >> >> >> >>See the matrix in the PG Build blog post: >> >>https://build.phonegap.com/blog/access-tags >> > >>
