These articles below will help immensely Differences (wrt to PhoneGap vs Cordova, but generally applicable to other downstream dists): http://phonegap.com/2012/03/19/phonegap-cordova-and-what%E2%80%99s-in-a-name/
PhoneGap Beliefs, Goals and Philosophy: http://phonegap.com/2012/05/09/phonegap-beliefs-goals-and-philosophy/ .. of which this statement I think encapsulates my thinking of what the project is: "The ultimate purpose of PhoneGap/Cordova is to cease to exist" which I can say with confidence is not one of the goals of any of the other projects. On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Mike Billau <mike.bil...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think it's always important to clarify the difference between Cordova as > an open source "engine" and downstream distributions like Phonegap, > Worklight, the Netbeans IDE, etc. Will the article talk about these > distributions or will the article just be another Cordova vs Titanium vs > Sencha vs .etc? If so, there are a lot of questions on StackOverflow that > attempt to answer this, my personal favorite is here [1]. It's hard to say > what the main differences are without reading the other descriptions > though. > > [1] > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1482586/comparison-between-corona-phonegap-titanium > > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> wrote: > > > Just to clarify, is your magazine doing its own investigation and > summary, > > and you are just kindly giving us the opportunity to clarify points to > > cover, or, are you asking us to provide the description you plan to > > publish? > > > > Does anyone have a good de-facto answer to this question? > > http://cordova.apache.org/ has a good overall framework description, but > > no > > real comparison to other frameworks. Ditto for http://phonegap.com/from > > what I see. > > > > -Michal > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Christina Mulligan > > <cmulli...@bzmedia.com>wrote: > > > > > Hi, my name is Christina Mulligan and I am a reporter for SD Times, a > > > software development magazine. For our January issue we are putting > > > together > > > a buyers guide on mobile application frameworks. In the buyers guide we > > > name > > > a couple of vendors with a brief description of their mobile > framework. I > > > was just wondering what differentiates Apache Cordova from the other > > mobile > > > application frameworks on the marketŠthere isn't a need to set up an > > > interview, just thought I'd drop a note to see if there was anything > > > specific to highlight. > > > > > > Thanks for your help, > > > Christina > > > > > > Christina N. Mulligan > > > Online and Social Media Editor, SD Times > > > <http://www.bzmedia.com/softwaredevelopment.html> > > > > > > BZ Media LLC <http://www.bzmedia.com/products.html> > > > 225 Broadhollow Road, Suite 211 > > > Melville, NY 11747 > > > SD Times on Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/sdtimes> & Facebook > > > <http://www.facebook.com/sdtimesbz> > > > > > > > > > > > >
