A bunch of developers have recently come up with a solution that might bridge the difference between the web and native apps. PhoneGap, a free open source development tool and framework will allow the developers to take advantage of the powerful features of the native iPhone  APIs from HTML and JavaScript, something that the Safari do not let you do.

Conceived at iPhoneDevCamp II by Nitobi developer Brock Whitten, Rob Ellis, freelance designer Colin Toomey and Eric Oesterle,  PhoneGap is written in Objective C and the developers will be allowed to embed their web apps within a native iPhone app.

Right now, the developers can use two features through this –the most popular ones –accelerometer and Geo Location. Pending features include Camera and Vibration.

This has the promise of un-burdening the developers of learning Objective-C and Cocoa and yet have access to the super-advantageous iPhone features like spring board icon, background processing, push, geo location, camera, local sqlLite and accelerometer.

This and further promises like allowing the web app developers to smoothly package their web apps to a native iPhone app by just providing a URL, a name and icon graphic might make this a real handy real handy tool for developers.

Check for more information here.

For the code, directly go here .