959355 - Browser activities should open in browser chrome window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 941276

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia, defect)

Description

[Kevin Grandon :kgrandon]

When rocketbar is enabled, any tapped links should open in a browser chrome window.

This is required for user testing as it is part of the testing protocol.

Comment 1

[Rick Waldron [:rwaldron]]

Is this some other activity? Links in messages just use the activity associated with: 

{
  name: 'view',
  data: {
    type: 'url',
    url: url
  }
}

Comment 2

[Kevin Grandon :kgrandon]

(In reply to Rick Waldron [:rwaldron] from comment #1)
> Is this some other activity? Links in messages just use the activity
> associated with: 
> 
> {
>   name: 'view',
>   data: {
>     type: 'url',
>     url: url
>   }
> }

Everything today in master is fine, but we would like to enhance all link activities to be opened inside of an empty browser chrome window, instead of an app. Ideally this should only happen when the rocketbar.enabled preference is turned on.

Comment 3

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

Kevin, why is it related to the SMS app ? I mean, shouldn't this be handled at the system level ?

Comment 4

[Kevin Grandon :kgrandon]

(In reply to Julien Wajsberg [:julienw] from comment #3)
> Kevin, why is it related to the SMS app ? I mean, shouldn't this be handled
> at the system level ?

We will be removing the activity and replacing it with a window.open() call most likely. Changing component and assigning to myself for now.

Comment 5

[Kevin Grandon :kgrandon]

So this could either be handled at the system level if we can intercept the activity and redirect, or migrate apps to use window.open.  I'm leaning towards seeing if we can intercept the activity at the system level so we don't have to change application code yet.