Not sure if this is doc'ed anywhere, I looked on the wiki but I didn't see anything.
Currently the order of events for page-load/cordova start-up is this (on windows phone): 1.) onDOMContentLoaded 2.) onPluginsReady 3.) onNativeReady 4.) onCordovaReady 5.) onCordovaInfoReady 6.) deviceready After digging though some old mailing lists I found this mention about the topic [1]. For plugins on windows phone we need to patch the browser and inject some scripts so that the xhr will run, this is hard to do if onPluginsReady gets fired before onNativeReady because we have no way to ensure that the xhr is patched before the plugins get loaded. What do people think about documenting the order of these events firing so that it will be consistent across all platforms, as well as waiting for onNativeReady to fire before loading the plugins? [1]: http://callback.markmail.org/message/bziya43ztqo6oqrs?q=cordova+list:org%2Eapache%2Eincubator%2Ecallback-dev+order+channel+fire