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Alex Martelli wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:56 AM, K. Richard Pixley <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rich@noir.com"><rich@noir.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">mobile devices. Witness any embedded applications. Witness the fact that
web based interfaces are only working on the big name general purpose OS's.
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The Palm Pre and Chrome OS are "big name general purpose OS's"?! Wow
-- I must tell my friends in the Chrome OS team and those working at
Palm (both of the groups still labor under the impression that they're
still-small, if growing, niches, so these news will definitely make
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Palm apps aren't really "web apps", they're WebOs apps.<br>
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They aren't general purpose apps in the sense of being able to run on
any general purpose web browser. They're very specifically designed
only to run in a WebOs environment. They require feature support that
isn't generally available and make environment assumptions that aren't
generally true.<br>
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It is true that they are written in a variant of javascript and paint
their pixels through a variant of webkit. So they are indeed based on
familiar technology, but they are not web apps in the sense that we
generally think of.<br>
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--rich<br>
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