So-called RAD environments like Microsoft’s infamous Visual Basic have contributed a lot to the success of platforms like Windows Mobile – they make the creation of GUI applications extremely simple.
Palm’s webOS is based on web technologies like JavaScript: no RAD has been made available for these platforms so far. PCWorld now claims the following:
Palm will introduce a Web-based development environment for WebOS applications, called Ares, by the end of this year.
Ares got its first public demonstration on Thursday at the Open Mobile Summit conference in San Francisco. It is designed to make it easy for developers to pull various components together in Javascript to build applications for the Palm Pre and Pixi, the two handsets that run Palm’s WebOS.
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As of now, no further information has been made available on the topic. I personally struggle to see how JavaScript and a GUI-builder-like component go together due to the lack of structure in JS – let’s see how it all plays out.
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