Question

I’m trying out PhoneGap 1.4 on Windows Phone 7.5 using jQuery mobile (1.0.1.).
Basic navigation is working, unfortuantely I can’t seem to get alerts working. Neither alert(“string); nor PhoneGap’s navigator.notification.alert(message, alertCallback, [title], [buttonName]); get me any response. The PhoneGap test message is being displayed fine. This is the way I try to call it:

function init()
{
  document.addEventListener("deviceready",onDeviceReady,false);
}

function onDeviceReady()
{
  document.getElementById("welcomeMsg").innerHTML += "PhoneGap is ready!";
  alert('test');
  navigator.notification.alert(
      'You are the winner!',  // message
      alertDismissed,         // callback            
      'Game Over',            // title            
      'Done'                  // buttonName        
  );
}

Answer 1

See this Google Groups discussion.

In short, Windows Phone 7 IE9 web browser doesn’t support alerts, and instead you must use the PhoneGap Notification API, like this:

navigator.notification.alert("Message", callBackMethod, "Title", "Button Text");

For further information, see the PhoneGap Notification API.