[Gta04-owner] WebOS for GTA04?

[Simon Busch]

On 20.12.2011 15:03, Dr. Michael Lauer wrote:
> Well,
> 
> right now I'm afraid there is nothing to do but wait.
> Until now everything has been talk which we know is cheap.
> 
> The questions are:
> 
> 1.) Which components will actually be released? It's unclear
> whether this covers the tablet frameworks or also the smartphone frameworks.
> It's also completely unclear (and – to be honest completely unlikely)
> that they release everything that's necessary to build an installable and
> working image from scratch.

What will be definitly release as open source (don't ask which license
they will use) is the enyo framework is the one responsible for the user
interface of the applications itself. It makes it very easy to develop
application with JavaScript/HTML/CSS. The great thing about enyo is that
it is not bound to some other component but just a webkit browser. I
already have enyo running locally in a chromium browser and playing a
little bit with it. It should be very easy to adopt it for our needs
just to have a easy to use framework and create applications very, very
fast (take a look here:
https://developer.palm.com/content/api/dev-guide/enyo/tutorial/tutorial1.html).

> 2.) Will the tools be released? Palm used to use OpenEmbedded to build
> WebOS, if they would release their patches to that including recipes,
> we could easily recreate their builds (in theory... see above).
> 
> 3.) _If_ they release a satisfying amount of UI code, is it written in a
> modular way so that we can mix and match and e.g. strip out their middleware
> (which only runs on the Pres) and substitute it with FSO (which covers many
> more devices)?

Should be possible but more we can say only when the sources are available.

regards,
Simon

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Simon Busch - http://mm.gravedo.de/blog/