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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