Comments on: iPhone App Vs Web App

By: 5 must-have iphone/ipod touch apps | chan.V

5 must-have iphone/ipod touch apps | chan.V — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:42:58 +0000

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By: David Whiterod

David Whiterod — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:56:26 +0000

The Big 5 iPhone browser project (http://code.google.com/p/big5/ and http://www.big5apps.com/) allows the iPhone location/GPS service to be accessed via JavaScript.

… just add JavaScript access to the iPhone local data store and there are a lot of nice, light-weight apps that would flow.

I would be very nice to see Apple offer a similar JavaScript API interface!

By: Matt Braun

Matt Braun — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:43:45 +0000

Thanks for this post.

Although I disagree with you on a native app not being able to be classified a rich internet app (that really just boils down to semantics, however), I’ve personally been wondering why there is no JavaScript API access to some of the platform facilities, especially the CoreLocation services. Like you mention in your point about cross-domain issues, security for that kind of access is an all but solved problem.

By: Tom Kelshaw

Tom Kelshaw — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:11:22 +0000

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