O’Reilly annonced the publication of the first book on webOS written by Mitch Allen, the CTO of Software at Palm and the webOS team: Palm webOS – The Insider’s Guide to Developing Applications in JavaScript using the Palm Mojo Framework.
Palm webOS by Mitch Allen
Mitch doesn’t blog much, as he’s fully focused on his work, but I found this blog post in the Palm blog, titled “Keeping an Open Mind”:
When we first started sketching out the next Palm device OS, we knew that – in the age of the Internet — we’d need to do three things: provide fast, open access to the web, leverage the power of the device, and get out of the way of the web developer. It was incredibly gratifying to be part of the CES launch of the beautiful Pre and the webOS, but I still have a profound sense of anticipation as the power of a web-centric platform has yet to be fully shown. The mobile web is the future of the web, and webOS is a significant step in the right direction.
Getting out of the way of the web developer is something the webOS team has achieved. The decision to make webOS application development easier by building on the foundations of JavaScript and CSS – instead of a language Objective C in the case of the iPhone – is a great signal to friends of open standards and JavaScript. And it’s another proof for the fact that JavaScript – given the performance of current JavaScript VMs like the Webkit one – delivers excellent performance on mobile devices now.
Palm has confirmed that Telefonica/O2 will start selling the Palm Pre by the end of the year in Europe, that means everyone here still hast to wait a few more months to get a Palm Pre. But developers can already start by downloading the SDK (with the emulator running inside Sun’s VirtualBox, what a cool idea!). Mitch’s book should be a perfect addition to the SDK, I’m going to get my own copy now.
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