No...I have similar gripes...especially with regards to things that have been on the Palm OS for years, but aren't in the WebOS. I didn't expect the WebOS to be perfect, but there are just so many things that were in the old PalmOS that were so useful and that are now missing.
Frankly, I am also not sure how third-parties are going to add these missing features with an SDK that is based on HTML5 &
JS...and sandboxed data. I am particularly interested in answers to these two questions:
- How do you hook into the gesture area lights to provide a notification capability from HTML5/
JS? I seriously wonder if that is even possible. This is an issue for many areas that would require your app to hook in at a rather low level to fix a missing feature.
- How do your provide an app that compliments an existing PIM app when sandbox rules prevent you from seeing that data? For example, I understand that if someone chooses to build a datebook app with an integrated Today screen, they can't access the required PIM calendar data. I hope that report is not true, but I could see why Palm would want to Sandbox data. Of course, perhaps they shouldn't...because they can't seem to reliably show calendar events on their own calendar...so perhaps they should let someone else give it a shot.
