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[David Barth <david.barth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Status Update - WebApps Team - April 24


Quick status update after the last weeks spent on preparing the LTS release.

The focus was mostly on landing the new Oxide-based webapps. A huge 
thanks to all involved, and in particular the extraordinaire Chris 
Coulson for the Oxide runtime*.*


Webapps Stack


Full switch to Oxide on Touch and Desktop. Phone apps are transparently 
migrated to the Oxide runtime when they declare a dependency on the new 
14.04 framework. 13.10 apps keep on using qtwebkit and the older 
UbuntuWebView release


Fix for the infamous launcher icon issues (double icons, unresponsive 
ones); we removed most of the dead code in webapps & bamf, and disabled 
support for action menus to get to a stable state.


Addition of navigation support and containment to Oxide: this lets a 
user stay safely within the confines of a webapp, or switch to using the 
browser for external links


User-agent overrides support for desktop webapps


Fixes to make Google Apps for Business usable in the initial release. 
Stay tuned to bug 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/webbrowser-app/+bug/1302780if you use such 
apps (we certainly do!)



HTML5 SDK


After the major update of our SDK for the App Showdown, we released some 
updates to the Content Hub API, numerous CSS and JS fixes


Also since then, 2 important new APIs are available: the Runtime API 
(support for App. Lifecycle signals) and Download Manager API (pending 
publication approval).


Recent Cordova updates to File API, in preparation for the next 3.5 release.



Online Accounts


Update of our Facebook API key in Trusty and 13.10 to maintain support 
for FB integration in Desktop apps; also a Flickr signon support update




Click Webapps


Pre-installed webapps updated to support the new Upload API (linked with 
the Content Hub). This lets you attach content to a Gmail message for 
example.


New Google Calendar webapp.



David
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