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Re:Titanium vs Phonegap vs Native application development by vlucas on Thursday June 21, 2012 @10:54AM (#4142276)
I've worked with Titanium extensively, and a lot of this article is just plain wrong regarding Titanium. It seems like Sapan just read some older docs or articles on Titanium and did a write-up for traffic.

* Titanium uses the V8 JavaScript engine on both platforms (not JavaScriptCore or Rhino anymore)

* Titanium does not support the Windows phone platform (at least not yet), and the desktop app support has been discontinued so it technically doesn't even support Windows anymore either

* Titanium also produces Web/HTML as as output target for mobile web sites if desired (with little/no code changes)

* You can still embed webviews if you want and make "web wrapper" apps, just like PhoneGap (so yes HTML and CSS IS possible)

* Using external JS libraries IS possible, and is highly encouraged through the use of CommonJS modules

I appreciate comparison articles for the sake of the discussions that follow, but this much bad information is just not excusable.

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Re:Titanium vs Phonegap vs Native application development by sgt on Thursday June 21, 2012 @11:04AM (#4142330)
Be warned though, it's not easy to debug the embedded webviews. I put some HTML5-based charts into a Titanium app and it took so long that I wished I'd gone full native ObjC from the get-go.
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Re:Titanium vs Phonegap vs Native application development by marknutter on Thursday June 21, 2012 @11:03AM (#4142323)
I didn't think that the V8 engine was available on iOS in native apps.
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