companion photo for Palm pulls back the curtain on webOS technical details

Palm is replacing its legacy operating system with an innovative new Linux-based webOS platform that will support application development with web technologies. We got some early clues about the platform SDK from a developer shortly after the launch, but those few tantalizing hints weren’t enough to satisfy the techno-lust of those of us who are eagerly awaiting the public SDK launch. Fortunately, Palm has decided to give us a sweet hit of the good stuff with new technical details that have been published at the Palm Developer Network website.

The new documentation is the first chapter of a book about webOS that is being authored by Palm CTO Mitch Allen in collaboration with the O’Reilly publishing company. The chapter provides a basic overview of the webOS platform and introduces its intriguing application model and some of the basic terminology behind its user interface paradigms.

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