Mozilla takes on PhoneGap →
Joe Brockmeier:
Robert Nyman, technical evangelist for Mozilla, says that the API would be used for any application needing to interact with information or other applications; for instance, any application that needs to dial the phone, use the camera, control phone settings or access the contacts on the phone.
Sounds a lot like PhoneGap to me.
Another alternative is PhoneGap, which Nyman says has been “tremendously useful,” but it isn’t considered a standard. PhoneGap is also limited to iOS, Android, WP7, BlackBerry, webOS, Symbian, and Bada – and doesn’t have uniform support for hardware across all OSes.
Although I’m not a fan of cross-platform development, I do applaud efforts to make it better. But why another framework ? Here is a thought: PhoneGap is open-source. Why not just contribute to that ?
Apple, for example, has little incentive to provide companies like Amazon an even better escape hatch out of native iOS development.
I couldn’t agree less. Apple currently offers the best support for web-apps in the industry. Apple is concerned about user-experience, not web development vs iOS development.
