I'm looking at the dialog plugin, and I swear I see code for browser support already in there. Going to test a bit.
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Jesse <[email protected]> wrote: > Notification pre-dates the use of plugin namespaces, most plugins > originally were hung off of navigator when a standard did not exist. > The notification plugin used to include things like displaying a loading > spinner, or vibrating the device, so it was much more about 'notifying' > than strictly dialogs. > > The problem with alert on various platforms is it is not consistent. It > does not even exist on windows, it displays a title of 'index.html' on iOS, > ... > > The additions for browser are coming, or you could do it and send a pr ;) > > Cheers, > Jesse > > > > @purplecabbage > risingj.com > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 12:25 AM, Philipp Kursawe <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> sometimes I wonder the historical reasons why certain cordova plugins >> choose to inject themself into "navigator" instead of their own namespace >> or remain at cordova.plugins.<pluginname>. >> For things where a native browser spec exists or is proposed like >> "geolocation" it makes sense. Then you can just code against the native >> browser API and when running on a device, that does not have this native >> support the Cordova geolocation plugin poly-fills that behaviour. >> >> I recently came across the "Dialogs" plugin which uses >> "navigator.notifications" and I wonder why? >> Why not "navigator.dialogs"? So I checked, maybe there is a W3C spec for >> browser notifications. There isn't. >> >> What is also interesting, that while browser have native support for alert >> and prompt at the window level, the plugin neither polyfills them nor >> provides any browser support at all. >> >> One could just write the application with "window.alert()" and on mobile >> devices the plugin would polyfill this behaviour. >> >> Any insides in the though process of those decisions? >> >> Thanks a lot! >> >> Phil >> -- =========================================================================== Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate for StrongLoop at IBM Email : [email protected] Blog : www.raymondcamden.com Twitter: raymondcamden --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
