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From: Victor Sosa <sosah.victor@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:57:08 -0600
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Subject: Re: Running browser platform in Linux
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Hello Michal.
Have you had time to look at this PR?

2014-11-10 9:08 GMT-06:00 Michal Mocny <mmocny@chromium.org>:

> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Parashuram Narasimhan (MS OPEN TECH) <
> panarasi@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> Usually use python -m SimpleHTTPServer for this when working locally.  Node
> alternative is https://github.com/nodeapps/http-server.  This will also
> make it easier to integrate livereload most likely.
>
>
> > - 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.
> >
> - Biggest reason: Safari will be a better testbed for iOS.  IE for WP.  FF
> for FFOS.
>
> I know Steven had no specific reasons for making chrome-only, it was just
> the first implementation.
>
> Looks like Victor filed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7978 and
> has already submitted a PR for the linux fix (thanks Victor! I'll take a
> look).
>
> I've file https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7999 to investigate a
> web-server version.
>
>
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steven Gill [mailto:stevengill97@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.victor@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) <
> > > panarasi@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.victor@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
> > >
> >
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Victor Adrian Sosa Herrera
IBM Software Engineer
Guadalajara, Jalisco

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