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There have been some new developments in the PhoneGap on BlackBerry breathing new life into the project! It all boils down to the fact that in RIM OS >= 4.6 there is a browser rendering option that you can set to make the browser render using the modern rendering engine rather than the archaic one from OS 4.2.

It look something like this:

_renderingSession.getRenderingOptions().setProperty(
  RenderingOptions.CORE_OPTIONS_GUID, 17000, true);

After much trial and error it was found that the BrowserContentManager did not support this rendering option (and RIM says it is completely unsupported / experimental anyhow) yet the Field returned from BrowserContent.getDisplayableContent() does support it!

Long story short it looks like PhoneGap on RIM OS >= 4.6 is going to work really well.

Next up is looking at the new features in OS 5.0.

Tags: blackberry, mobile, phonegap, rim.