We've been discussing allowing alternate rendering engines in Android for some time. FireOS is basically this. GeckoView is around the corner from Mozilla. It is a likely future.
I'm still curious if Crosswalk wants to donate to Apache? On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Jonathan Bond-Caron <[email protected] > wrote: > On Tue Dec 3 08:40 AM, Hu, Ningxin wrote: > > Your thoughts about the integration? > > Is it possible to support Crosswalk runtime as a platform in Cordova > > upstream? > > > > [2]: https://github.com/crosswalk-project/crosswalk-cordova-android > > It looks really awesome, can't wait to try it out. > > I have some concerns about more platforms and the terminology. > Android should be considered as the platform, maybe Cordova needs a new > flag, -engine? > > e.g. cli perspective > > cordova prepare android > #uses WebView of OS > > cordova prepare android -engine crosswalk #uses Crosswalk > > cordova prepare android -engine ChromeView #uses ChromeView bundled > jar > > That could solve some issues with windows 8: > e.g. > > cordova prepare windows8 > > cordova prepare windows8 -engine v8.1 #uses/injects 8.1 > code > > cordova prepare windows8 -engine crosswalk #uses Crosswalk? > > Putting this idea out there, might make the maintenance easier. > Problem for me is terminology of crosswalk as a platform, it's more like > an engine that sits on top of the OS. > >
