SFSafariViewController, webview alternative for iOS9 or better

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Many people have asked for running Cordova/Phonegap with Cookies and sharing with the system webbrowswer. In reading the What's new for iOS, Apple suggests using a new Class that can work for some developer. It is called SFSafariViewController.

While this new feature can be a potential security issue, it might make a valuable plugin.

Apple states:

SFSafariViewController can be used to display web content within your app. It shares cookies and other website data with Safari, and has many of Safari's great features, such as Safari AutoFill and Safari Reader. Unlike Safari itself, the SFSafariViewController UI is tailored for displaying a single page, featuring a Done button that takes users back to where they were in your app
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What can you report? Have you tried it? Is anyone using it yet?
I see three (3) issues.

BTW, thanks for this. I added it to my online notes for webview alternatives

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Jesse
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I have not tryed it yet. Looking into the open issues, I think only one of them makes sense, it doesn't have events (loadstart, loadstop) like inAppBrowser