[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-17944) BrowserSim: Use http: protocol instead of file: for accessing local files

[Ilya Buziuk (JIRA)]

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Ilya Buziuk commented on JBIDE-17944:
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In terms of Phonegap and root relative path:
- I have asked a question on Stack Overflow and got a very informative [answer|http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25036288/does-phonegap-support-root-relative-path-what-are-the-best-practices/25043877]
- Ionic issue coupled with root relative path - https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-demo/issues/1

On balance, It's a very bad practice to use root relative path for Hybrid apps.

> BrowserSim: Use http: protocol instead of file: for accessing local files
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>                 Key: JBIDE-17944
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-17944
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: browsersim
>            Reporter: Alexey Kazakov
>            Assignee: Konstantin Marmalyukov
>             Fix For: 4.3.0.Alpha1
>
>         Attachments: ripple.png
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> Currently, BrowserSim works through file: protocol but this protocol doesn't work well with paths relative to the webroot (which start with "/").
> So if a local file contains any links to local resources (css, js, ...) via relative paths then these resources are not available in BrowserSim.
> For example all official ionic example projects use such paths. It makes "open with BrowserSim" feature useless for those projects.
> It would be great if BrowserSim uses http: as our HTML5 preview does.



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