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by gavingmiller 5232 days ago
Totally agree with you on this one.

On a side note, are there plans to develop a better set of debugging tools for PhoneGap? It's one of the major pains of the platform. If one is already in development can you point me in the proper direction? Thanks!
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alunny 5232 days ago
Agreed - I'd definitely like to see something like JSFiddle for PhoneGap. We're working on weinre right now - http://phonegap.github.com/weinre/ - and also recommend Aardowlf - https://github.com/lexandera/Aardwolf - and Ripple - http://ripple.tinyhippos.com/
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lukifer 5232 days ago
Debugging tools definitely need to be improved, but what I struggle with the most are memory/crashing bugs. XCode, for all its warts, provides sophisticated tools for handling this. Troubleshooting these issues on WebKit+PhoneGap is a miasma of trial and error, especially if the bug is hard to replicate on a desktop with 10 times as much RAM as a mobile device.
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willtheperson 5232 days ago
Ripple (http://ripple.tinyhippos.com/) does a pretty good job. You can get an extension for Chrome. It will simulate PhoneGap events and extend JS api's to support what iOS and Android should have. Kind of clunky but pretty useful.
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