Author: agrieve Date: Mon Sep 17 15:03:38 2012 New Revision: 1386647 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1386647&view=rev Log: Adds a more detailed description to the "About Cordova" section.
Fixes: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1159 Committed on behalf of cmarc...@gmail.com. Modified: incubator/cordova/site/public/index.html incubator/cordova/site/www/template.html Modified: incubator/cordova/site/public/index.html URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/cordova/site/public/index.html?rev=1386647&r1=1386646&r2=1386647&view=diff ============================================================================== --- incubator/cordova/site/public/index.html (original) +++ incubator/cordova/site/public/index.html Mon Sep 17 15:03:38 2012 @@ -97,6 +97,11 @@ <a class="scroll-point pt-about" name="about"></a> <div class="wrap"> <h2 class="icon icon-about">About Apache Cordova™</h2> + <p>Apache Cordova is a set of device APIs that allow a mobile app developer to access native device function such as the camera or accelerometer from JavaScript. Combined with a UI framework such as jQuery Mobile or Dojo, this allows a smartphone app to be developed with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.</p> + <p>When using the Cordova APIs, an app can be built without any native code (Java, Objective-C, etc) from the app developer. Instead, web technologies are used, and they are hosted in the app itself locally (generally not on a remote http server).</p> + <p>And because these JavaScript APIs are consistent across multiple device platforms and built on web standards, the app should be portable to other device platforms with minimal to no changes.</p> + <p>Apps using Cordova are still packaged as apps using the platform SDKs, and can be made available for installation from each device's app store.</p> + <p>Cordova provides a set of uniform JavaScript libraries that can be invoked, with device-specific native backing code for those JavaScript libraries. Cordova is available for the following platforms: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Palm WebOS, Bada, and Symbian.</p> <p>Apache Cordova is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Incubator project. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.</p> </div> <a class="scroll-point" name="contribute"></a> Modified: incubator/cordova/site/www/template.html URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/cordova/site/www/template.html?rev=1386647&r1=1386646&r2=1386647&view=diff ============================================================================== --- incubator/cordova/site/www/template.html (original) +++ incubator/cordova/site/www/template.html Mon Sep 17 15:03:38 2012 @@ -106,6 +106,11 @@ <a class="scroll-point pt-about" name="about"></a> <div class="wrap"> <h2 class="icon icon-about">About Apache Cordova™</h2> + <p>Apache Cordova is a set of device APIs that allow a mobile app developer to access native device function such as the camera or accelerometer from JavaScript. Combined with a UI framework such as jQuery Mobile or Dojo, this allows a smartphone app to be developed with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.</p> + <p>When using the Cordova APIs, an app can be built without any native code (Java, Objective-C, etc) from the app developer. Instead, web technologies are used, and they are hosted in the app itself locally (generally not on a remote http server).</p> + <p>And because these JavaScript APIs are consistent across multiple device platforms and built on web standards, the app should be portable to other device platforms with minimal to no changes.</p> + <p>Apps using Cordova are still packaged as apps using the platform SDKs, and can be made available for installation from each device's app store.</p> + <p>Cordova provides a set of uniform JavaScript libraries that can be invoked, with device-specific native backing code for those JavaScript libraries. Cordova is available for the following platforms: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Palm WebOS, Bada, and Symbian.</p> <p>Apache Cordova is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Incubator project. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.</p> </div> <a class="scroll-point" name="contribute"></a>
