Palm's revised webOS developer program looks more open than Google
Published: 8 October, 2009
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Dion Almaer, one of two high profile web developers who joined Palm recently from Mozilla, said in a blog entry: "Many of us see in the web the potential to be The Platform that we can use across all of these emerging devices to bring sanity to application development. Imagine a world where you can develop Web applications that you can deploy to a plethora of devices and form factors. We have a real opportunity to make this world a reality, and it will take the entire web community to make this happen.... "
Meanwhile, Palm added the first premium products to the App Catalog, with six downloads priced between 99 cents and $9.95, including Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
And RIM was also going down the open web technologies route, announcing the beta release of its BlackBerry Widget SDK. This allows developers to create BlackBerry apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and uses the BlackBerry Browser engine to render an application's user interface so that programmers can translate their existing web content to the BlackBerry platform, and extend the capabilities of their apps using Widget APIs. These also support interaction between widgets and the BlackBerry email and calendar applications. Widgets can be distributed over the air, via BlackBerry App World or through BlackBerry Enterprise Server to smartphones running RIM's OS 5.0, which will include an enhanced browser.
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