Dion Almaer’s delicious links included this news of the PhoneGap project. While not exclusively about browsers, our readers will likely be interested in the PhoneGap project which aims to “bridge the gap between the web and Mobile Devices.”
More specifically:
PhoneGar PhoneGap is a free open source development tool and framework that allows web developers to take advantage of the powerful features in the iPhone SDK from HTML and JavaScript. We’re trying to make iPhone app development easy and open. For many applications a web application is the way to but in Safari you don’t get access to the native iPhone APIs, and the that’s the problem we’re trying to solve.
With that goal, about 15 folks showed up at the first PhoneGap sprint this page weekend and got quite a bit accomplished:
Here’s a quick summary of what we accomplished on the various platforms now in the PhoneGap umbrella.
iPhone
- Added network detection
- Notify user if no network is detected
- Memory clean ups
- Made default image/screen more intelligent
Android
- Accelerometer
- Basic camera support
- Offline support
- Bugs fixed
Blackberry
- GPS is totally working with the W3C API (maybe some error states don’t work but we’ll get there)
- Camera works
- Mapping works
- Phone calls work
- Vibration works