OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/21001/Palm_Pulls_Back_the_Curtain_on_webOS_Technical_Details Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 22 May 2013 11:05:30 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Native Interface http://www.osnews.com/thread?349688 http://www.osnews.com/thread?349688 While the API is good enough for most apps, it may be too slow for more advanced tasks - like games, voice/image recognition, custom audio and video codecs, compression, visualization.
Let's hope there will be a way to use native code. No need for a native code API, just something similar to JNI(Java Native Interface) that will allow some computational tasks to be done by native code. Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (geleto) Comments RE: Native Interface http://www.osnews.com/thread?349761 http://www.osnews.com/thread?349761
While the API is good enough for most apps, it may be too slow for more advanced tasks - like games, voice/image recognition, custom audio and video codecs, compression, visualization.
Let's hope there will be a way to use native code. No need for a native code API, just something similar to JNI(Java Native Interface) that will allow some computational tasks to be done by native code.


I'd say they'll have a native coding put the promotion so far has been on the 'web' programming ability to demonstrate that no only are Palm 'up with the times' but also that the bar to entry is very low as to encourage a large ecosystem around the said product.

Its the old story that marketing only tells half the story - the story which the company wants emphasised to a given market. Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kaiwai) Comments BeIA http://www.osnews.com/thread?349786 http://www.osnews.com/thread?349786 Sort of reminds me of what Be Inc were trying to do with BeIA. Whilst BeIA allowed native apps to be embedded, it also wanted content to be web based. Unfortunately, browsers of the time didn't really cut it in that kind of content. Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (memson) Comments RE: BeIA http://www.osnews.com/thread?349821 http://www.osnews.com/thread?349821 Well Be was inhead of their time in many ways - often too far ahead.

A good example where their idea of using a 3D desktop - an idea that never left the drawing table. Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (flywheel) Comments sounds aweful http://www.osnews.com/thread?349831 http://www.osnews.com/thread?349831 I have never written a mobile phone app on any platform but having to use JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and AJAX sounds aweful. Apple tried this an failed, the first iPhone applications were just websites that looked good at 300x600 or whatever resolution it is. Ultimately people hacked it, jailbroke it etc and were running native apps before the SDK or appstore existed.

A lot of effort has gone into web technologies trying to make websites behave like native applications. Thats fine for something that you want delivered on the web, but for actual applications like games, calculators, photo editors etc, why on earth would you want that done in JavaScript? Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (FunkyELF) Comments RE: sounds aweful http://www.osnews.com/thread?349848 http://www.osnews.com/thread?349848 I agree completely. I am professional web developer and I use technologies like Ruby on Rails, JavaScript on day-to-day basis. I can't imagine myself using JavaScript to open file handles, query database - however, this sort of things is possible now on both - phones and desktops. I don't want to do it because JavaScript isn't for me (and lots of other programers) enjoyable in using. Ruby is. Java is. C++ is. C is. But JavaScript with it's (advanced but..) hard to use object system is simply not right choice for building complicated, big applications.

What I *do* can imagina, and I already used - is mixing HTML/CSS/javascript with native programming (in C++, java, objective-c). This way you can develop interfaces rapidly and enjoyable using familiar HTML/CSS/JS technology, while having full power of devices you develop for. Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kajaman) Comments