On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > I figure I will write this all up before the official release of iOS 8 next > week (probability high) and everyone asking about support. > > It has stalled because the WKWebView cannot load files using the file:// > protocol since iOS 8 beta 4. > > This bug has been filed with Apple weeks ago: > http://www.openradar.me/radar?id=5839348817723392 > > I even checked WebKit check-ins if there was any progress, so far, no: > > http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/API/Cocoa?order=date&desc=1 > (but it's entirely possible the loading code is in another part of the > tree). > > The alternative is to run a local web server, which works great. However, > this will open up a can of worms possibly with Apple, I'm not sure. >
Shaz, did you implement a prototype with a local web server? Would be useful to see how the code for this works. > > The other interesting tidbit is, with WKWebView, for locally loaded files > using the file:// protocol, cross-domain restrictions now apply, unlike > UIWebView's behaviour. To have the same behaviour as UIWebView, we would > need to proxy these requests (modify xhr.open to go to our proxy, which > requires the local web server). > > The bridge works great, and plugins work great. >
