If you require the ability to programmatically access the full power of the web browser without ever opening a web browser you should take a look at PhantomJS http://phantomjs.org/. Want even more power ? Combine it with CasperJS http://casperjs.org/. With these technologies you can run automated scripts that don’t require any desktop UI or browser …
Nice guide here I was unaware that Apache comes preinstalled with OS/X In a nutshell ∞ All the relevant files are at /etc/apache2 Starting, stopping, restarting the service is done with sudo apachectl start sudo apachectl stop sudo apachectl restart The default document root is at /Library/WebServer/Documents/ but you can create a different document rule …
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So you want to quickly test some static files from an http server ? Just cd to the folder where these files are and: Using Python 2.x: python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000 Using Python 3.x: python -m http.server 8000 Another option, if you have PHP installed is: php -S localhost:8000
and opensourced it… link is at: https://github.com/amnond/cordova-on-browser
Someone already made something similar: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/where-is-my-car-web-app-and-phonegap-app At this point I’m looking for a good cordova.js stub file – seems others are also looking for something like that but there aren’t any to be found in the small search I’ve made – only the Ripple chrome extension which only supports Cordova 2.0 and didn’t really work …
I’ve seen various attempts to use JavaScript to customise the file upload button. The browsers historically do not lend themselves to making this easy to achieve due to security considerations – the idea is not to make it simple for anyone to upload a file from the PC to a remote website without the user …
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When running the project via xCode, the reason there was no access to the device sensors on iOS from JavaScript became apparent from the logs: ios ERROR: Plugin Compass not found, or is not a CDVPlugin. Check your plugin mapping in config.xml Of course, the config.xml was just fine, but at least this gave me …
To run our Cordova sample on iOS, I’m using a Mac OS/X Maverics with Xcode 5.02 installed. To add ios support in our compass application, from within the compass directory, issue: cordova platform add ios This went smoothly. Next, building the project: cordova build ios This also went smoothly. Finally: cordova run ios This yielded: …
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