Jose,

You're right. In the short term, a PhoneGap backend for open web apps will be 
great for getting existing PhoneGap apps into our ecosystem. Meanwhile, we're 
all working toward standardization of device API's, slowly but surely.

-Bill


On Dec 19, 2012, at 6:38 AM, JOSE MANUEL CANTERA FONSECA <[email protected]> wrote:

> That's interesting in terms of market share but evil from a technical
> point of view, as If I have understood correctly it would mean that Device
> APIs will be duplicated and will come in two different flavors ...
> 
> 
> El 30/11/12 20:46, "Fabrice Desre" <[email protected]> escribió:
> 
>> On 11/30/2012 10:53 AM, Kumar McMillan wrote:
>>> Hi all.
>>> I have a vague memory of hearing that someone in Labs was once working
>>> on a Phone Gap backend to build open web apps. Did this happen? Or is
>>> there work in progress code somewhere? It seems like a great way to help
>>> developers launch existing apps on Firefox OS easily. At MozFest I
>>> watched someone *convert* a Phone Gap app to an open web app in less
>>> than an hour [1] because it's already HTML5-ish but it would be nice to
>>> have a proper backend so that devs could maintain a single source and
>>> still target iOS, Android, etc.
>>> 
>>> [1] The biggest hurdle she ran into was migrating webkit specific
>>> styles to gecko
>> 
>> We met with the PhoneGap people a couple of weeks ago and decided that
>> Philipp will team up with one of their devs to get this done.
>> 
>>   Fabrice

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