And cards are essentially browser instances, right? That makes a lot of sense, and is very, very similar to Apple's initial approach to 3rd-party iPhone development (where they wanted everyone to play within Safari's sandbox).
Given the crazy success of games on the iPhone, it might be important to webOS to support that, which it won't immediately due to a lack of 3D graphics support. So the list of things webOS doesn't have is looking kinda long at this point: - 3D graphics - external storage support - Palm OS / Garnet OS emulation - other? It'll be interesting to see how things unfold as more details emerge. But, if there really is a chance to make compelling apps with just XHTML, CSS, and Javascript, I might have to learn me some JS. :-) On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Gmail <[email protected]> wrote: > it seems that applications for the device will come on 2 levels - > those that work as cards and those that work on the linux level - like > Docs2Go or Flash. I suppose you only get the keys to the second level > if you're a Palm partner - something that allows Palm to throw the > doors open to unfettered development that won't bring down the system, > but also have a process for palm-approved apps that work at a deeper > level. > > My guess, only. > > On 1/13/09, Craig Froehle <[email protected]> wrote: >> So what happens if/when Flash support is announced? Does that moderate >> your concern at all? >> >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Gmail <[email protected]> wrote: >>> further down: >>> >>> "UPDATE: This article originally had an error in it. I said that while >>> developers will have the option of using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, >>> they will also be able to use C++. This is not the case. Palm write to >>> tell me that developers won't be able to code in C++, although they >>> will be able to call device services from JavaScript. >>> >>> This has left me very concerned about the future of games on webOS. >>> Palm has so far kept mostly mum on the subject of games, and my >>> attempts to draw them out at the announcement were unsuccessful. I'm >>> hoping the company is just holding information back as part of plan to >>> build hype as time goes by, but we'll have to wait and see." >>> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
