I agree that it is not recommended, but it's possible. I delved into this question here: https://github.com/shazron/phonegap-questions/issues/37
The PhoneGap Developer App is an example of how this is working at http://app.phonegap.com but they do some proxying to get around the CORS limitations I believe. On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Marcel Kinard <cmarc...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been getting occasional questions about users trying to use > remotely-loaded (non-local) HTML pages with Cordova (in the webview, not > InAppBrowser), and still expecting to have access to the plugin APIs (camera > is a popular one). My response so far is: "This is an unsupported > configuration, because Cordova was not designed for this and the community > does no testing of this configuration. While it can work in some > circumstances, it is not recommended nor supported." > > My definition of "unsupported" is not that it is incapable, but that we don't > claim that it is supposed to work, and more importantly, we won't actively > fix user-submitted defects on this topic. > > The main concern I have on this is same origin policy, and matching the > remotely-served cordova.js with the locally-installed native Cordova platform > to avoid version mismatch. > > Do you think I'm out in-the-weeds on this, or do you agree? > > If you agree, what would you think of a blurb in cordova-docs somewhere that > captures this gist? > > Thanks for your feedback!
