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Yes, but this pig NEEDS more lipstick.

It would be great to have a major company supply a fully cross-platform html5 app framework.

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Or just forget the pig with lipstick and get the hot model - Xamarin.

No Linux? No thanks.

Xamarian is based on Mono, which has had Linux support since forever.

Yes, but Xamarin Studio isn't supported on Linux: https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=142

Have you tried MonoDevelop? Its still being actively enhanced by Xamarin.

http://monodevelop.com/

We were talking about mobile apps; how can you build those with MonoDevelop on Linux?

Adobe PhoneGap?

The article actually says it is using Apache Cordova which is Adobe PhoneGap. I wish they would just contribute to the project directly, though. There's already quite a bit of bullshit platforms built on top of PhoneGap, like a business applet one by HP, and using the actually thing is always better.

As a matter of fact, most of the engineers on this project are regular committers to the Cordova project. (Cordova is the underlying project, btw -- PhoneGap is Adobe's build system built on top of it)

We're very committed to the Cordova platform, and we're very active in pushing it forward.

Though there are a lot of individuals, and companies, involved, I suspect that, by any measure, Google is one of the top contributors to Cordova these days.

In another view, PhoneGap is the trademark that Adobe bought. Cordova is the (not so) new name given to the PhoneGap product when the product moved to Apache and the branding went to Adobe.

I have an app in the Android Market (er, Play Store) built with the old open source PhoneGap.

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