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Code Conventions
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where Nitobi’s offices were located). We’ve been told that the commercial
product will keep the PhoneGap name while the open source project will
have a different name, but I’m really not sure how that’s going to work out.
• Nitobi Acquired by Adobe: Immediately following the previous announcement
(actually the next day), Adobe Systems Incorporated (www.adobe.com)
announced it was acquiring Nitobi, the company responsible for the
PhoneGap project. That meant big changes for PhoneGap since the folks at
Nitobi could now focus entirely on the PhoneGap project instead of working
on it in their spare time. A while later, Adobe announced it was ceasing development
of its Flash product for mobile devices. This was huge news and
clearly indicated that PhoneGap now had a very important place in Adobe’s
mobile strategy.
One of the biggest problems I faced was getting the help I needed when things
didn’t work or didn’t make sense. As an open source project run by volunteers,
many of my forum questions went unanswered (and to this day are still unanswered).
You can try to get help there, but usually you’re on your own (all the more
reason to pick up this book).
Code Conventions
I put a few notes and sidebars in the manuscript, but for the most part I kept the
manuscript as clean and simple as I could. I did, however, illustrate sample code in
two ways.
A code snippet, a section of a complete application, will be represented in the
manuscript in the following manner:
var d = new Date(heading.timestamp);
hc.innerHTML = "Timestamp: " + d.toLocaleString();
The code could stand alone, like a complete function that you could use in your
application, but in many cases this type of listing illustrates a piece of code that
simply affects one small part of an application.
On the other hand, complete code listings will look like this:
HelloWorld Example
HelloWorld