Comment by sylvinus | Hacker News Reader

Comment by sylvinus | Hacker News Reader

"As long as there's no way for me to simulate a built-in browser in a web app, HNmobile will remain being a non-standalone app."

I'm not sure if you had a look at it yet but there is a PhoneGap/Cordova plugin called ChildBrowser that may do what you want here. I can help you getting setup with a PhoneGap project for your app if you want!

"Since it's hosted on another domain, the API supports CORS so that HNmobile can do cross-domain XMLHttpRequests."

Why don't you use JSONP?

JSONP is considered by most to be a hack and a security risk. CORS is extremely easy to implement, as it only requires you to send some headers to the browser. For example, in a node app I recently wrote, adding CORS was just a matter of adding these lines:

  var allowCrossDomain = function(req, res, next) {
    aptUtil.log('using cors to allow for cross domain xhr');
    res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*'); //any domain can submit requests to us.
    res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET,PUT,POST,DELETE');
    res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'Content-Type');

    next();
  }; app.use(allowCrossDomain);

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