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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?

Tags: blackberry, development, phonegap, simulator.

For those interested in Blackberry development the simulator is now Available from RIM.

In the summary of changes to the API there were a few things of note including new classes for the touch screen, virtual keyboard, orientation and rotation, and accelerometer. Oh and how could I forget that Storm owners will also have the ability to set the theme wallpaper!

The JavaDocs for the 4.7 API (the OS version of the Storm) can be found here for reference.

The one good thing is that it should not mean I will need to make any changes to the Blackberry version of PhoneGap! However, unluckily it means that Storm is still using the same shitty old browser and not WebKit.

Tags: api, blackberry, mobile, phonegap, simulator, storm.