Pretty sure Apple would frown on this and reject the apps out-of-hand, seeing as they don't permit any third party browser to use anything but the built-in rendering engine. (Opera Mini is a special case here - last I knew it was essentially doing the rendering back-end and passing the image to the user, which means no on-device rendering at all).
Plus, don't forget the increase in app sizes such a thing would bring -- it's not as critical now that Apple lets users on cellular download apps up to 100mb, but still something to think about. All that said, iOS 7 has done some good things and some really lousy things wrt to the web views. Sigh. :-( ___________________________________ Kerri Shotts photoKandy Studios, LLC On the Web: http://www.photokandy.com/ Social Media: Twitter: @photokandy, http://twitter.com/photokandy Tumblr: http://photokandy.tumblr.com/ Github: https://github.com/kerrishotts https://github.com/organizations/photokandyStudios CoderWall: https://coderwall.com/kerrishotts Apps on the Apple Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/photokandy-studios-llc/id498577828 Books: http://www.packtpub.com/phonegap-2-mobile-application-hotshot/book http://www.packtpub.com/phonegap-social-app-development/book > On Oct 8, 2013, at 10:19, Jacob Robbins <[email protected]> wrote: > > Going through the iOS7 upgrade with my Cordova app (2.9) I found some > unpleasant surprises with fixed footers. The changes to mobile Safari are > great for browsing websites but not good for HTML5 apps. > > This made me wonder, has there been discussion of integrating a full mobile > browser codebase into Cordova and using that instead of the native webview? > Mozilla sort of went this way with XUL where you could take their HTML > engine and use it in a non-browser context. > > Seems to me a lot of usability problems with non-native apps result from > running them inside the same HTML engine used by the platforms' default > mobile browser. The native browsers are moving towards features that help > make regular websites accessible. Being a great virtual machine for > non-native apps is not a high priority for them. > > Was wondering if this has been discussed and if there's issues that make > including a full HTML engine in a Cordova app infeasible. > > -Jacob Robbins > Burn Note
