So far we've mostly been targeting iOS and Android for tablets, but there's
another interesting tablet OS coming down the line -- Windows 8, which will
run on both conventional PCs and tablets.
Windows 8 includes an HTML/JavaScript runtime for native apps using the new
"Metro" style interface paradigm which is heavily weighed towards
touchscreens, so we should be able to adapt the PhoneGap app or reuse much
of its code.
I've been looking into what it would take to support a Windows 8 Metro
style app well, and have written up some notes and screenshots:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile/Windows_8_Metro
A standalone test application that runs on Windows 8 Consumer Preview and
implements some of the system integration (but none of the article
reading!) is on my github account:
https://github.com/brion/WikipediaMetroTest
There's also a preliminary solution & project file in the main app's git
repo, in the WikipediaMetro subdirectory, but this doesn't fully run right
now (the way we load some scripts violates a security rule) and doesn't do
any of the integration. I'll try and get it running proper soon...
-- brion