re: Palm webOS makes its appearance

2009-01-11 Thread Luc Le Blanc
Edward Jones wrote: > Some interesting videos on this website (and no doubt elsewhere) > but the ONE thing that is not mentioned is compatibility with the > Palm OS Garnet which I would of thought would be fairly > fundamental... We may have to wait for a StyleTap Palm OS Emulator for Web OS :))

Re: Palm webOS makes its appearance

2009-01-11 Thread Luc Le Blanc
Dmitry Grinberg wrote: > I'll just get this one: > http://www.pharosgps.com/products/proddetail.asp?prod=001_PTL137_7.90&cat=136 Is this a device DGOS would run on? If not, what do you target? Anything that would not be a smartphone? (the most interesting ones come tied with a contract.) Luc Le

Re: Palm webOS makes its appearance

2009-01-10 Thread Dmitry Grinberg
thank you for saying it. all of you who are so excited can have your "web 2.0". HTML and java script is fun, and all. but at the end of the day - useless. C is where the work gets done if I cannot run my C code on it, I am not interested in it. Instead I'll just get this one: http://www.pharosgps.c

RE: Palm webOS makes its appearance

2009-01-09 Thread Luc Le Blanc
Philip Sheard wrote: > Let us face it chaps, we are dinosaurs. I beg to differ. There's more to life than web apps written in JavaScript. Apps like Planetarium and TideTool don't need an internet connection but perform lots of computations requiring mathlib. We'll always need some sort of a ha

RE: Palm webOS makes its appearance

2009-01-09 Thread Philip Sheard
unalloyed greed, and Metrowerks were hardly philanthropic. But most of it was down to Palm themselves. From: luis maldonado [mailto:luis.maldon...@hotmail.com] Sent: 09 January 2009 19:49 To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: RE: Palm webOS makes its appearance I also agree with the statement and

RE: Palm webOS makes its appearance

2009-01-09 Thread luis maldonado
in the pork and not in our apps Luis, > Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 10:42:55 +> From: edward.jo...@nvs-ltd.co.uk> > Subject: Re: Palm webOS makes its appearance> To: > palm-dev-forum@news.palmos.com> > I do agree with the dinosaur statement and > I am also allergic to Ap

Re: Palm webOS makes its appearance

2009-01-09 Thread Christopher Stamper
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Edward Jones wrote: > I do agree with the dinosaur statement and I am also allergic to Apple > sauce ;) Same here... ;-) Actually, think about it: most legacy palm apps would basically need rebuilt just to fit into the interface. Bad idea. > Redeveloping apps f

Re: Palm webOS makes its appearance

2009-01-09 Thread Edward Jones
I do agree with the dinosaur statement and I am also allergic to Apple sauce ;) Redeveloping apps from scratch could well be the only route as after using StyleTap on an HP iPAQ 214 to run my Palm app it just shows how outdated the interface looks compared to more modern interfaces. So I can im

RE: Palm webOS makes its appearance

2009-01-09 Thread Philip Sheard
Public reaction seems to the Pre seems to be very positive. I might get one myself, because I am allergic to Apple sauce, and I want to see what all the fuss is about. I am still slumming it on a Treo 650 at the moment. But according to the info that Palm has just posted on the PDN, it does not loo