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From: Andrew Grieve <agrieve@chromium.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:40:12 -0500
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Subject: Re: Global Javascript in InAppBrowser
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Pretty much the only API we could support on window.opener is postMessage().

We might want to consider exposing a separate interface from window.open()
for activating an InAppBrowser that you want to do more with (e.g. listen
to events, inject JS/CSS).


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Brian LeRoux <b@brian.io> wrote:

> Would it be possible to implement window.opener ??
>
> I'm thinking no, due to the async nature of stuff, but allergic to
> introducing more non-standard API surface. It might be time to start
> documenting where Cordova MUST diverge so we can socialize this w/ the
> various standards groups we interact with.
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Andrew Grieve <agrieve@chromium.org>
> wrote:
> > No.
> >
> > We do plan to support asynchronous JS communication in the future though.
> > We didn't have a bug for it, so I've now created one:
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2305
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Dan Mullins <dmullins78@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> If I open a local file in the InAppBrowser, can it communicate via
> >> javascript to the main application?
> >>
> >> For instance, if index.html defines the global function doSomething
> >> and opens local.html:
> >>
> >> function doSomething(input) {
> >>         alert('hello ' + input)
> >> }
> >>
> >> document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);
> >>
> >> function onDeviceReady() {
> >>         iabRef = window.open('local.html', '_blank', 'location=yes');
> >> }
> >>
> >> Can local.html call doSomething?
> >> function init() {
> >>   doSomething('child view');
> >> }
> >>
> >> I'm not having any success and want to make sure I'm not missing
> something.
> >>
> >> Dan
> >>
>

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