* BlackBerry Browser Oddities
Posted on January 4th, 2009 by Dave Johnson. Filed under phonegap.
So for PhoneGap on BlackBerry I was using a BrowserContentManager to achieve the PhoneGap functionality. I finally got around to installing the BlackBerry Bold 9000 simulator (OS 4.6) with hopes that the BrowserContentManager would support nice things like Node.innerHTML and other things that one might like for making web apps.
Alas, I was terribly wrong. Here is what the BrowserContentManager content looks like:
And the native BlackBerry browser looks like this:
The main things to notice are:
- the font in the native browser is way nicer (anti-aliasing goes a long way I guess)
- the buttons are different
- there is no CSS being applied in the BrowserContentManager
- the BrowserContentManager does not appear to support the mouse pointer mode
Of course not visible is the very different JavaScript DOM API…
I am still investigating but so far I am not very impressed by the functionality of the BrowserContentManager. Is there a better way to achieve the PhoneGap functionality?
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March 24th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
[...] So I started putting together some wireframes for my first real PhoneGap project tonight. I have become sort of bored playing with BlackBerry and Android native development and figured it was about time to actually build something on top of the platform. The only problem I am having is that I can’t currently do offline apps on BlackBerry so am really looking forward to the next version of the RIM OS as I hear they may have fixed some of my gripes. [...]