Sorry for not being clear. I was saying that we should not open the file:// URL in a specific browser. We should ideally spin up a webserver and open the default browser on the system
Why a server ? Because - file:// and http:// have differences in quota and permissions for many APIs like IndexedDB or WebSQL - Cordova apps on mobile can make cross-domain AJAX requests. You cannot do that in the browser due to same-origin restriction. However, CORS can help, but is restricted due to file:// - Cookies and protocol relative paths may get messed up. Why default browser? Default browser would just mean opening the HTML file. - I may not have Chrome installed - Chrome may not be installed at that location - Issues like Linux that you described. - Integration of cordova-browsers in IDEs and Ripple-as-a-platform may be hard. -----Original Message----- From: Steven Gill [mailto:stevengil...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 6, 2014 1:55 PM To: dev@cordova.apache.org Subject: Re: Running browser platform in Linux Victor, feel free to send a PR so is uses config.xml content src instead of www/index.html. Also send the PR for your patches to run script. On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Victor Sosa <sosah.vic...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not sure I'm following you, Parashuram, can you explain a little more, > please? > > One more I noticed is that in the run script of the browser platform, > it is directly pointing to "www/*index.html*", why is index.html > hardcoded there instead of reading config.xml? > > I patched my run script to use this google-chrome command and I'm > happy to share it. Also will try to patch the index.html reference in > the script to open the browser. > > 2014-11-06 14:50 GMT-06:00 Parashuram Narasimhan (MS OPEN TECH) < > panar...@microsoft.com>: > > > I don't this we should launch Chrome this way. How about using > > something like browser-launcher, or even karma-chrome-launcher > > instead? Also, why > not > > just "open" the HTML page? > Chrome needs to be launched with flags for some of the plugins to work (camera I believe). That is why you can't just open it. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Victor Sosa [mailto:sosah.vic...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Thursday, November 6, 2014 12:45 PM > > To: dev@cordova.apache.org > > Subject: Running browser platform in Linux > > > > Hello all. > > > > I've been playing a little bit with the Browse platform and the > > first thing I notice is that when running the application using > > "cordova run browser" > > it handles the cases of when using Windows and Darwin (MacOS) but no > Linux > > (I'm on Ubuntu 14.04). Is there any particular reason of why it is > > not handled? > > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/cordova-browser/blob/master/bin/templates/pr > oject/cordova/run > > > > Moreover, I have Chrome installed in my machine, but it doesn't > > respond > to > > the typical "chrome" command because I get an error in the standard > > output[1], so I have to use "google-chrome" command to launch it. > > Does anyone something about this? I downloaded the DEB package > > directly from Google Chrome. > > > > Appreciate your help > > > > [1] > > * Error*chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0: > cannot > > open shared object file: No such file or directory > > > > > > -- > > Victor Adrian Sosa Herrera > > IBM Software Engineer > > Guadalajara, Jalisco > > > > > > -- > Victor Adrian Sosa Herrera > IBM Software Engineer > Guadalajara, Jalisco > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org
