[CB-7847] Page Visibility API should be supported

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Do
• Affects Version/s: 3.5.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.6.0
• Component/s: cordova-js
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Damien Antipa
• Created: 22/Oct/14 10:26
• Updated: 24/Jun/20 14:58
• Resolved: 24/Jun/20 14:58

Description

If the browser supports the API currently, he may return a wrong value by accessing the visibilityState when the application went into pause mode. Imo the visibility API should be supported without breaking code relying on pause/resume.

http://www.w3.org/TR/page-visibility/#sec-visibilitychange-event

I created a patch which relies on the fact that all platform code will handle pause/resume properly. It currently supports the visibilityState and the visibilitychange event. Missing parts of the spec are:

• handle hidden attribute on window
• prerender/unloaded

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #86