Question

I’m studying webview in packaged apps of chrome and I’m studying browser sample from chrome.
in browser.js file in onload function, I added alert(“webview apps”); at the first row and the code didn’t work anymore, when I deleted this row, it worked again.

onload = function() {
    alert("webview app");
    var webview = document.querySelector('webview');
    doLayout();
    ...
}

so does alert work on packaged apps?

P/s: console.log also doesn’t work, I saw the source code use it, but nothing is displayed on inspect element window

Answer 1

Console.log should work, it all depends on what view you are looking at. For example to get to the logs when in a window, you have to “Inspect Element” on the page to get to it.

Alert has been disabled along with confirm and a number of other legacy web features.