Re: Re: Need help understanding desktop/handheld relationship

For an interesting insider look at developing apps for Palm's WebOS,
check this out:
http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9685/interview-with-pandora-about-developing-for-webos/

Here's a tidbit --
TC: Well, I think one of the important little nuances here to
understand is that you might think from the name "webOS" and from the
technologies used – HTML and CSS and Javascript – you might think that
this is the whole thing, just kind of a fancy web browser, and that
you're – y'know, any interaction you take is interacting with web
content. That's really not how it works at all. What you really have,
is that you have an environment where a developer can write a
traditional application – so, an application that gets installed onto
the phone with all its code and all of its user interface elements and
that is actually local to the phone. There's also a database and file
storage that allows you to take data from the internet connection and
store it locally – so when you're browsing your contacts, for example,
you're interacting with an application that's local to the phone, with
interface elements that are local to the phone and with contacts that
are actually sitting on the phone.

What makes it this "webOS" is that the programming models for your
developer rather than being C or Java is really just HTML and CSS and
Javascript. So you can take a developer who's been developing web
applications and quickly get them productive in the webOS SDK,
leveraging their familiarity with these web-based standards. And that
decision is one of the reasons we were able to get, very very quickly,
a version of Pandora up and running. We were able to take one of our
star web developers – someone who has never touched the Palm webOS and
not done mobile development before – and have that person be
immediately productive because it's all based on systems that they're
familiar with from web development.

-- 
~Michael Kizer
http://MichaelKizer.com

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