So on plugins.cordova.io, if you filter by Browser, Dialogs *does*
show up. But when you go to the docs, it isn't shown as supported - so
that could be a minor doc bug. I'll do a PR.

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Raymond Camden
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>>>
>
>
>
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