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[jira] [Created] (CB-11753) Removal of Windows 8.0 code breaks some types of Windows 8.1 devices

robert-crowell-gdit created CB-11753:
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             Summary: Removal of Windows 8.0 code breaks some types of Windows 8.1 devices
                 Key: CB-11753
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11753
             Project: Apache Cordova
          Issue Type: Bug
      Security Level: Public (Anyone can view this level - this is the default.)
          Components: Windows
    Affects Versions: 6.3.1
         Environment: Windows 8.1 Pro Dell Tablet x64 bit
            Reporter: robert-crowell-gdit
            Priority: Critical


In Apache Cordova (v6.3.1) WINDOWS platform code (v4.5.0-dev),  due to Issue CB-10480 ( https://github.com/apache/cordova-windows/commit/d783f2073430492e59d99009b30411fb8e8e897a ) in platform.js  the final "else" clause was removed
" // windows 8.0 + IE 10
 -                scriptElem.src = "//Microsoft.WinJS.1.0/js/base.js";", since Windows 8.0 code was removed.

Now, the Windows 8.1. Pro Dell Tablet I'm testing with (Internet Explorer 11), is reporting the variable navigator.appVersion as "5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36".   Due to that value, therefore Apache Cordova will never load the WinJS stuff because it falls thru the logic entirely.. 

The end results is that the application crashes when anything WinJS related is accessed by code (when I try to do a network check, it will obviously fail), since WinJS never loaded properly.

Recommend having one basic final "else" clause that will either 1. Load a very basic version to provide SOME functionality, or 2) Provide some form of loading error feedback.  But that's just my own opinion..  

Thanks for all the hard work and great software.



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