PhoneGap is more like AIR than Gears. It is a subtle difference. With PhoneGap you build a native application that has new APIs available to talk to the native system. With Gears, we put the APIs into the browser itself, which is very different. In theory, one could write APIs in PhoneGap that mimic the Gears ones, but you would still have to get users to install each application, rather than just open their browser.
Cheers, Dion On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Pedro Melo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've read with interest the recent thread about iPhone and Gears, and the > fact that given that iPhone Safari does not allow for plugins, Gears is not > an option. > > I've came across PhoneGap, a sort-of Air environment for the iPhone, that > exposes Objective-C APIs as JavaScript APIs. > > http://ajaxian.com/archives/phonegap-air-for-the-iphone > > This could be a way to have Gears in the iPhone. I suggest that people > interested on having Gears on the iPhone look at PhoneGap. Maybe they can > include Gears in there, given that the recent Gears release for Mac OS X > includes an API for easy embedding. > > Of course, it still remains to be seen if gears can even be ported to run > on Embedded Mac OS X :) > > Best regards, >
