Cordova 3.0.0 - ChildBrowser not working

Question

All the cited examples show this as the correct code:

window.plugins.childBrowser.showWebPage( "http://www.someurl.com" );

However, "window.plugins.childBrowser" is null, whilst this is not:

window.plugins.ChildBrowser

Unsurprising perhaps when one considers that this is the last code in childbrowser.js:

cordova.addConstructor(function () {
    if (!window.plugins) {
        window.plugins = {};
    }

    window.plugins.ChildBrowser = new ChildBrowser();
});

(extra information about this under the line below)

However, although the ChildBrowser property in this line has a value:

window.plugins.ChildBrowser.showWebPage( "http://www.someurl.com" );

It still doesn't do anything.

Huh?

ChildBrowser.showWebPage() looks like this btw:

ChildBrowser.prototype.showWebPage = function (url, options) {
    if (!options) {
        options = { showLocationBar: true };
    }

    cordova.exec(onEvent, onError, "ChildBrowser", "showWebPage", [url, options]);
};

ps: Cordova 3.0.0, XCode 4.6.3, ChildBrowser 5.0.0. The official plugin page at https://build.phonegap.com/plugins/480 claims that ChildBrowser 5.0.0 is supported by Cordova 3.0.0

Just to check that window.plugins ref, I ran this loop:

console.log( "loop starts..." );
for ( var propt in window.plugins ) {
    console.log( "propt " + propt );
}
console.log( "loop ends." );

And it produced this:

[Log] loop starts...
[Log] propt ChildBrowser
[Log] loop ends.

bryanhiggins bryanhiggins · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-31T18:52:03

The official Apache plugin is "InAppBrowser"

Syntax is: 'window.open'

https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-inappbrowser/blob/master/doc/index.md

Cordova 3.0.0 - ChildBrowser not working

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