Javascript Alert/Confirm don't work with the Webapp container

[Adnane Belmadiaf]

This is because the components that handle those functions are only implemented in the browser-app

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Note: the webapp-container executable does have the dialogs (they are shared between webbrowser-app and webapp-container).

ubuntu-html5-app-launcher uses a plain UbuntuWebView, and as such doesn’t re-use the private components from webapp-container. There are two options to solve this:

 1) ubuntu-html5-app-launcher provides its own set of dialog components (possibly copying the ones from webbrowser-app, which are not shared publicly)

 2) We expose the common dialogs as public components in the Ubuntu.Components.Extras.Browser plugin, but without localized strings, and that means that we also need to expose all potentially translateable strings as top-level properties of those common components.

For the sake of simplicity, I’d rather go for option 1, as option 2 requires some non trivial refactoring, and I’m not very fond of exposing more components on the public API, even more so that they won’t actually be used by UbuntuWebView.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Option #3 would be to get rid of ubuntu-html5-app-launcher and replace it with webapp-container, but I don’t know how doable/desirable that is.

[Alexandre Abreu (abreu-alexandre)]

I marked this as non related to webapp-container,

For reference, option #3 is not really desirable imo, since the html5-container has a different "security" model and execution environment (loosens the javascript code injection process & access to oxide apis), gives access to extra unity apis, etc. handling all this in the same container might create gaps and higher complexity than necessary imo,