iOS 8.1 BETA is out, fix for the WKWebView bug?

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- damjancd
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Are we getting delicious deliciously good performance on mobile with Phonegap soon?

I'd be happy even if it's only on the beta for now, since I can test it till it bleeds.

Does anyone know if the bug has been fixed?

thanks
- TheWyrm
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I'm not completely sure but I believe this is something phonegap/cordova have to fix

=> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7043
- damjancd
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The guys at webkit (not sure I have this right) said they've already fixed it, and an Apple guy in charge of that said they integrated it, but I don't know if it got into 8.1

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/174029

http://www.openradar.me/radar?id=5839348817723392
- russpuppy
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according to someone at https://devforums.apple.com/message/1051027#1051027:

"This new API function is not in the iOS 8.1 beta. Hopefully it is in 8.2"
- damjancd
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OK I got subscribed to that thread now thanks russpuppy

I reached that thread somehow before, but lost it now it's back where it belongs, in my billions of chrome tabs
- TheWyrm
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So is iOS 8.1 beta the same thing as 8.01 which was released then withdrawn and replaced with 8.02 today? Or were those hot fixes and not the beta?

Just trying to work out if people are mistyping version numbers. As presently it sounds like we maybe waiting quite some time for a fix.
- russpuppy
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TheWyrm
Oh yeah, I didn't even notice the difference. Yeah they probably really are talking about 8.1, not 8.0.1
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- EddyVerbruggen
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If you indeed don't mind beta software: I created a plugin to drop it in. Grab it while it's beta and hopefully it'll be obsolete soon!
- EddyVerbruggen
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Hmm link'm or allowed. It's at github / eddyverbruggen
- TiAm
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EddyVerbruggen
Hey, thanks! Yeah, Apple is really dragging on pushing out. I'll repost your link if you don't mind:

https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/cordo ... -wkwebview
- jminfantem
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Still waiting for the fix...
- Sisyphus
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Still waiting for the fix...

Don't expect that it will be fixed soon.
- jminfantem
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How long do you think it will take? Sisyphus
- Sisyphus
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How long do you think it will take? Sisyphus

Guys from apache cordova are working hard on workaround for the bug, because they say that a chance that apple announce a bugfix equals to 0,0001, there are many other bugs in WKWebView, they are trying to workaround them too, but it's not easy, to introduce updated cordova they need to be sure that EVERYTHING is fixed and working without problems, this will take time...

As for apple, this WKWebView bug first encountered in ios 8 beta 4, it's still not fixed in ios 8.2 beta 4, half of year passed, still no fix, so nobody waiting for a fix now, even guys from apache.

You can use Ludei's Webview+, it's a WKWebView with workarounds, working very well, sometimes dissapointing with bugs like clearing the local storage on low memory, but it's the best export option for ios.
- Sisyphus
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Here's what i got from Shazron's message on markmail

1. Integrate the "wkwebview" (pluggable webviews) branch into the 4.x

branch, instead of releasing it for the 3.8.0 branch. This is so it

will be aligned with cordova-android 4.x which has pluggable webviews

2. Once tested and reviewed, release cordova-ios 4.x branch

Waiting for a cordova-ios 4.x branch?