The original focus was for Apple App Store apps (thus having features that will not raise Apple's ire), thus it was only designed to load a file from the app's sandbox. With Enterprise distribution though (no Apple App Review) -- this can be really useful and should be put on the queue for implementation.
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Kevin Hawkins <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Andrew. I'll start poking around with it, and see how it goes. Shaz > will probably have thoughts too. :) > > Cheers, > Kevin > > > On Oct 24, 2012, at 7:21 PM, "Andrew Grieve" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It's probably something that's just not been gotten to yet. Going straight >> to the web means your app won't work offline out-of-the-box though, and >> might hurt your appstore approval chances. >> >> It'd be worth adding to Cordova anyways though, as it's useful for testing, >> and as you pointed out, Android supports it. >> There's also another related bug here: >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1475 >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Kevin Hawkins >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> We're building out frameworks based on Cordova that have feature parity >>> between Android and iOS. We've come into a refactoring project in our >>> frameworks where it would be very useful to be able to optionally jump >>> straight from native to an HTTP(S) endpoint as our start page. Android can >>> do this, but this functionality is not available in the iOS offering. >>> >>> My question is, is this deliberately missing, or just something that never >>> really got into the update queue? I'd be willing to take a look at it, but >>> it seemed prudent to first ask if there are good reasons for that not being >>> available in iOS. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Kevin >>> >>>
