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Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 22:58:35 -0400
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Subject: Re: API addition: application version
From: Michael Brooks <michael@michaelbrooks.ca>
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Could we consider using the W3C Widget Interface [1]? It's a programmatic
interface to the W3C Widget Specification [2].

In that case, it would be: window.widget.version

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets-apis/#the-widget-interface
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Shazron <shazron@gmail.com> wrote:

> I like navigator.app.version
>
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Simon MacDonald
> <simon.macdonald@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Seems easy to do on android and probably belongs in navigator.app.version
> > since app is our own non-W3C extension.
> >
> > Simon
> >
> > On Monday, May 7, 2012, Filip Maj wrote:
> >
> >> Stems from https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-635
> >>
> >> TL;DR: providing a JS API in cordova for accessing the application
> version
> >> as defined in native. Shaz has already commented on how to do this in
> iOS.
> >> In Android I understand the manifest versionCode / versionString
> >> properties are available (and should be accessible).
> >>
> >> First question: is this a valuable API? IMO: yes. Programmatically
> >> accessing app version for issue resolution and stuff like that seems
> like
> >> a good thing.
> >>
> >> Second question: How viable is this for Bada / WP7 / BB WebWorks / other
> >> platforms?
> >>
> >> Third question (assuming Q1 response is "yes"): how to frame this API?
> >>
> >> Thoughts/comments/suggestions appreciated!
> >>
> >>
> >
> > --
> > Simon Mac Donald
> > http://hi.im/simonmacdonald
>

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