- From: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:40:44 +0100
- To: Filip Maj <fil@adobe.com>
- Cc: "public-native-web-apps@w3.org" <public-native-web-apps@w3.org>
-- Marcos Caceres On Thursday, November 24, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Filip Maj wrote: > > > 4. Apps being able to XHR to their own content has come up a lot (so > > jQuery mobile and other libs can be used more easily). Also, a lot of > > widget-like apps still use file://, which is bad because it breaks > > anything depending on an origin (e.g., localStorage). > > > > Just wondering, what are you guys using in PhoneGap as your local content > > URI scheme on the various platforms? > > > > Relative URLs. So if you have an app running off index.html in your widget > root, you can XHR to "partials/template_one.html" and get the right local > content. Right, but those must "dereference" to something (i.e., in JS, what do you get back from "window.location.href" on each platform?). Is it file://? or content://? > Interesting side note on this, again, related to reality and not to what > looks best spec-wise, that using the File API is *way* faster on a > majority of platforms than making XHRs. I agree that XHR'ing is more of a > "web" approach, though... Yes, that makes sense. But, like, how do you read a text file from inside an app's package using File API without using <input type=file>?
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