Library activity

[Samuel Klein]

This seems like the right way to go -- allowing many apps to use html and a
local server without excess overhead, without overloading a canonical 'web'
activity, and without double-navigation (perhaps an option to keep the
default browser UI).

SJ

On 4/14/07, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
>
> I was talking to someone about the library activity, and he had done
> some work a product using Gecko without any extra UI, and it seemed kind
> of interesting.  In that case, he implemented all the back buttons and
> other navigational UI in HTML.  All of which is basically how the
> current library prototype is written, except there's an additional layer
> of normal browser UI.  Which I actually like in a general sense, but
> creates a perhaps-unnecessary second layer of UI in the library; and
> that's fine when you don't really trust the content (as with most
> websites), but if we have a consistent design process for content we can
> make the UI consistent in HTML.
>
> This would also be great for other Activities that might want to use
> HTML and a local web server, but aren't really "web pages".  If the
> activity doesn't add their own navigation then this won't work at all,
> so it should require at least some specific assertion (maybe in CSS or
> the page itself).  And probably this should only be allowed for local
> activities; I wouldn't want normal internet pages to be able to just
> completely turn off the UI.
>
> How these should be launched, I don't know; ideally they'd share memory
> with the web activities and each other, like when you start multiple web
> activities (I believe).  But that doesn't mean they can't have their own
> identity in the form of an icon or whatever else Activities come to
> represent.  A locally hosted web application Activity actually needs the
> whole thing -- it needs to start up a server, then start a browser, so
> it has to be its own Activity.
>
>
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