Dismiss Browser Widget on Mobile

[Mike Bonner]

Does setting the visible of widget "browser" to false work?

On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami <
brahma at hindu.org> wrote:

> a) create card 1… call it TOC or whatever
> b) put one button, Go to Card 2
> c) create card 2 with a browser widget with a preset URL
> d) top of screen, have a button for "go to card 1"
> e) go to card 2.. Widget runs the web page, lovely..
> f) click the button to go to cd 1
>
> Results
>    -- on desktop: you simply move to card 1, card 2 plus browser widget
> "disappear" as expected.
>   -- on iOS, you move to card 1.. the browser window persists on top of
> card 1, I think this may happen on android as well.
>
> I believe this relates to mobile controls establishing a "region" that
> floats over the stack. In the case of scrollers, one is advised to
> explicitly delete the scroller as you move to other views.
>
> But in the dictionary, the API for the browser does not offer command to
> "dismiss" the browser widget.
>
> Any clues? short of deleting it on the fly and creating it on the fly?
> like we do with scrollers?
>
> meanwhile my next test is to see if you make it in an independents stack
> and close the stack… see if it then goes away…
>
> but this is a nuisance… and also doesn't cover other use cases where, for
> example you might want to, say on card 4 of a stack, use 1/3 of the bottom
> of the card for a browser window that is integrated into the UI design.
> When you move to cd 2 or cd 5 in that stack we really need the browser to
> go away.
>
> BR
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