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BlackBerry WebWorks for Smartphones is a platform for building deeply integrated web applications for BlackBerry smartphones
http://developer.blackberry.com/html5
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WebWorks does not degrade gracefully when run without Ripple #137

Closed jonwebb closed 11 years ago

jonwebb commented 11 years ago

WebWorks should not require the use of Ripple, but degrade gracefully. Ripple is often too buggy to use in production, therefore other tools must still be usable. WebWorks should still fire the ready event, but offer an opportunity to detect API availability. The app can then choose whether or not to enable certain features.

Simply including the webworks .js throws errors when run in plain Chrome. Should not be dependent on localhost:8472.

kwallis commented 11 years ago

Hi Jon. Thanks for the feedback. I agree that this would be a great feature. Moving forward on BlackBerry 10 WebWorks will be based on Apache Cordova, so this would be better placed as a feature request against Cordova, where we could then just get it within WebWorks. I would encourage you to inquire about this on the Cordova mailing list. That said, in many respects this is a broader discussion for web runtimes and browsers in general that I know some leading web figures are starting talks around.