“Write once, attempt to debug everywhere” is probably way more accurate than “Write once, run anywhere” – at least for GUI apps. There’s something rather special about ideas that are theoretically amazingly wonderful yet end up being a major pain in the butt when you try to put them in practice, isn’t it? The older Wikipedia App happened to be in PhoneGap, and I consider it one of my biggest blunders to not have torn it down on day 0 and rewritten it in something saner.
