初探Palm webOS

今天在癮科技上逛了一下, 看到webOS的SDK釋出了, 目前還是申請制, 在申請的同時也順便再多了解一下webOS.

Palm webOS Book from O'Reilly Media [1]

webOS integrates the power of a window-based operating system with the simplicity of a browser. Applications are built using standard web technologies and languages, but have access to device-based services and data.

You can think of webOS applications as native applications, but built from the same standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript that you'd use to develop web applications. Palm has extended the standard web development environment through a JavaScript framework that gives standardized UI widgets, and access to selected device hardware and services.

You will build WebOS applications with common web development tools following typical design and implementation practices for Ajax applications. But your webOS applications are installed and run directly on the device, just as you are used to doing with native applications.

還蠻有趣的開發方式, 開發者要使用web開發工具(HTML/CSS/JavaScript)來開發要安裝才能使用的application, 且可以存取裝置上的服務與資訊.

怎麼辦到的呢? Palm說: 謎底就是Mojo Application Framework. 這個有空再介紹~ 總之不是魔獸世界裡面打食人妖會掉的魔精就是 XD