PhoneGap apps in Gnome?

[Jorge García <deriameloman gmail com>]

Hi,

My name is Jorge and I'm a gnome user from Barcelona. Thank you for
your amazing work!

I'm not sure if this is the right list to send this message so excuse
me in case this is not.

I recently began to read a book [1] about PhoneGap (Apache Cordova)
framework [2]. If you don't know it, it's an open source framework to
write mobile applications using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.

How it works:
* The app is a local html5 page where javascript is used to create the
UI (for example with jquery mobile)
* You can also use javascript to comunicate with remote web services
to manage data (ex. connect to a Facebook account and download/upload
photos, ...).
* The framework provides a javascript api to access to the hardware
devices (camera, accelerometer, ...) and to use a local sqlitle
database
* The final app runs in a fullscreen web browser, using the native
webview of the platform (usually webkit)
* The same code can be packaged for Android, iOS and lots of other
mobile platforms.
* There is an online Build Service to automate the packaging for each platform.

I was thinking that if Gnome was a target platform for PhoneGap
applications, thousand of apps [3] could be ready to hit this
platform. There is a Tizen port in progress[4], but I don't know if
some parts could be reused...

What do you think about this idea? If it's not this particular
framework, what do you think about developing gnome apps with
HTML+CSS+js?

Best regards,
Jorge

[1] http://www.apress.com/9781430239031
[2] http://incubator.apache.org/cordova/
[3] http://www.slideshare.net/AndreCharland/phone-gap-stats-growth
[4] http://download.tizen.org/misc/media/conference2012/wednesday/bayview/2012-05-09-1415-1455-enabling_cordova_aka_phonegap_on_tizen.pdf